Paulo Freire

1921–1997

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was a Brazilian educator whose work connected literacy, dialogue and political participation. Best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he treated education as a relationship in which learners actively interpret and change their world, rather than simply receive information.

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

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“If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either”

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