Paulo Freire Quote

People will be truly critical if they live in the plenitude of the praxis, that is, if their action encompasses a critical reflection which increasingly organizes their thinking and thus leads them to move from a purely naive knowledge of reality to a higher level, one which enables them to perceive the causes of reality.

Chapter 4 - Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)