This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a … - Paulo Freire

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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what. " "My mother didn't love me. " So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone. " So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Paulo Freire

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.

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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

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No reality transforms itself.

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In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Men, People, Practice, Take, Women

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

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An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

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