This work deals with a very obvious truth: just as the oppr… - Paulo Freire

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This work deals with a very obvious truth: just as the oppressor, in order to oppress, needs a theory of oppressive action, so the oppressed, in order to become free, also need a theory of action.

Paulo Freire

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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and theorist of critical pedagogy.

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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.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

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