The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
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Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Teaching and learning are interconnected processes where both the teacher and the student evolve.
This quote emphasizes the reciprocal nature of education, pointing out that the act of teaching is not just about imparting knowledge but also about personal growth for the educator. In the process of teaching, educators learn from their students, and students shape their own understanding and identity, highlighting that learning is integral to effective teaching.
Themes
EducationTeachingLearningGrowthReciprocity
In practice
Example use cases
During a teacher training workshop, this quote can be used to highlight the importance of mutual growth between teachers and students.
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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
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This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
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This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.
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