Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
Paulo Freire
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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The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
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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Scientific and humanist revolutionary leaders, on the other hand, cannot believe in the myth of the ignorance of the people.
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
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The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
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Finally, cultural revolution develops the practice of permanent dialogue between leaders and people and consolidates the participation of the people in power.
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