Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Quotes

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Quotes

"In the midst of the argument, a person who previously had been a factory worker for many years spoke out: 'Perhaps I am the only one here of working-class origin. I can't say that I've understood everything you've said just now, but I can say one thing—when I began this course I was naïve, and when I found out how naïve I was, I started to get critical. But this discovery hasn't made me a fanatic, and I don't feel any collapse either.'" Preface, p. 35

"True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the 'rejects of life,' to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands—whether of individuals or entire peoples—need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working,...
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