The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
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The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Education should be a continuous process due to the evolving nature of humans and reality.
Paulo Freire emphasizes that humans are inherently incomplete and that the world around us is constantly changing. Therefore, education cannot be a one-time event or a confined process; it must be an ongoing journey that adapts to our personal growth and the shifts in our environment. This perspective highlights the importance of lifelong learning and the need for educational systems to foster continuous development rather than static knowledge acquisition.
Themes
EducationLearningTransformationGrowthLifelong Learning
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of continuous professional development.
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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
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This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
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This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.
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