Quotes by Paulo Freire

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information"

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.