Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
Paulo Freire
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
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Indeed, some revolutionaries brand as innocents, dreamers, or even reactionaries; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.
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Some may think that to affirm dialogue--the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world--is naively and subjectively idealistic. There is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.
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It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
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Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
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The culture of the dominant class hinders the affirmation of men as beings of decision.
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