Paulo Freire's most quoted lines (with sources)
The top 3 according to 26 votes from people: People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection. · No one educates anyone else, no one educates himself; people educate each other, mediated by the world. · Reading the world precedes reading the word.. (Updated Mar 19, 2025.)
"No one educates anyone else", reading the world before reading the word and the neutrality that sides with the oppressor: the most quoted lines of Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed to Pedagogy of Freedom, with their source and without the misattributed ones.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 11
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People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968).
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No one educates anyone else, no one educates himself; people educate each other, mediated by the world.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968).
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Reading the world precedes reading the word.
The Importance of the Act of Reading (1981).
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We all know something. We are all ignorant of something. That is why we are always learning.
The Importance of the Act of Reading (1981).
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It is not in resignation but in rebellion against injustice that we will affirm ourselves.
Pedagogy of Freedom (1996).
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No one is ignorant of everything, no one knows everything.
The Importance of the Act of Reading (1981).
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Man, as a historical being caught up in a permanent movement of searching, constantly makes and remakes his knowledge.
Education as the Practice of Freedom (1967).
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One of the great sins of school is to disregard everything the child brings to it. School decrees that before it there is nothing.
Pedagogy of Freedom (1996).
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Creating what does not yet exist should be the aim of every person who is alive.
Folha de S. Paulo, 8 January 1997.
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One of the most regrettable things for a human being is not to belong to his time, and so to feel like an exile in time.
Educar com a Mídia, ch. I.
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"Washing one's hands" in the face of oppression is reinforcing the power of the oppressor; it is siding with him.
Pedagogy of Freedom (1996).
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