I wanted to choose one quote from Freire to write about in connection with a school today but I couldn’t choose. So its Friday of Spring Break in Denver and I am giving myself the break to post several of Freire’s quotes. Too hard to make a choice and I think maybe it is better to leave it for each person to make your own connections and meaning.
“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Reading is not walking on the words; it’s grasping the soul of them.”
“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause–the cause of liberation.”
if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic.”, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
And one from John Dewey that relates:
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.