In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.
Paulo FreireThe role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.
Paulo FreireIn order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
Paulo FreireThe world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.
Paulo FreireThe more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.
Paulo Freire