Occupation: Educator Birth: September 19, 1921 Death: May 2, 1997
It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated on….
I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it wil….
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to kno….
The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present..
Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word ….
People in communion liberate each other..
Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue..
Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town..….
Only through communication can human life hold meaning..
It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and ….
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?.
... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating….
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle..
The educator has the duty of not being neutral..
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history..
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by th….
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or a….
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 i….
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language wi….
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which re….
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator ….