For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
Paulo Freire
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
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A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle.
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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In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they existin the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.
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A deepened consciousness of their situation leads people to apprehend that situation as an historical reality susceptible of transformation.
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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
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The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
Reflection upon situationality is reflection about the very condition of existence: critical thinking by means which people discover each other to be 'in a situation.'
The more educators and the people investigate the people's thinking, and are thus jointly educated, the more they continue to investigate.
The thematics which have come from the people return to them--not as contents to be deposited, but as problems to be solved.
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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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