Paulo Freire Quotes

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

Men learn while they teach.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.