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Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Paulo Freire
Learning, Reflection, Understanding

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Paulo Freire
Learning, Hopeful, Inquiry
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Paulo Freire
Educational, Learning, Creativity
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

Paulo Freire
Teaching, Reading, Learning
Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

Paulo Freire
Struggle, Learning, Exercise
Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

Paulo Freire
Perseverance, Reading, Learning
Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.

Paulo Freire
Reading, Learning, Effort

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