Paulo Freire Quotes

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

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.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed the absence of civic concern, care for other people. I've been in other countries where I feel a palpable, almost tooth-and-claw attitude between people - Machiavellian, me and mine. And you can take for granted being here, with all the bloviating and the media, on a day-to-day level, people in this country are really pretty concerned for each other.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.