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Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
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Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation.
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Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.
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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
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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.
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Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning.
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
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The 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educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.
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Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
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With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.
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Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.
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A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.
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No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.
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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
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But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors
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If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.
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The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
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In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
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Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them...
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
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Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.
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Finally, cultural revolution develops the practice of permanent dialogue between leaders and people and consolidates the participation of the people in power.
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People are fulfilled only to the extent that they create their world (which is a human world), and create it with their transforming labor. The fulfillment of humankind as human beings lies, then, in the fulfillment of the world. If for a person to be in the world of work is to be totally dependent, insecure, and permanently threatened—if their work does not belong to them—the person cannot be fulfilled. Work that is not free ceases to be a fulfilling pursuit and becomes an effective means of dehumanization.
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As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to to be like, and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible.
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No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption.
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Born:
September 19, 1921
Died:
May 2, 1997
(aged 75)
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