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.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

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

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

When one teaches, two learn.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

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.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.