Paulo Freire Quotes

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.