7 entries for "Paulo Friere: A Importância do Ato de Ler"

[Evaluation reveals wisdom/adjustment, errors, imprecisions in the practice. Evaluation corrects and improves our practice, and augments our efficiency. Practice needs evaluation like a fish needs water or like crops need rain.]

[Practice needs planning, which means: having a clear idea of the objectives; knowing the conditions in which to act, as well the instruments and means to use; knowing who to count on; anticipating the terms (short, medium, or long.]

[If our objectives are correct, the evaluation teaches us that our means are not the best or that our terms are not realistic.]

[A non-colonial education stimulates collaboration and not competition, values mutual aid and not individualism, develops creativity and critical thinking and not passivity, proclaims the non-existence of neutrality and affirms the interests of the people.]

[The revolutionary task is not merely to inform, but more importantly, to form.]

[Nobody forms themselves without assuming the responsibility to do so.]

[Our people will not form themselves in passivity, but in action always united with thought. We avoid suggesting that comrades memorize mechanically. We challenge comrades to think and analyze reality.]

[Before cutting down the tree, they knew they were going to make a boat. Working, we transform the world. Transforming the world, we transform ourselves.]

[The tree belongs to the natural world. The boat belongs to the world of culture.]

[A society without exploiters and the exploited is one where there are no privileges based on whether you work with a pen or with your hands. Everyone is a worker in service of the good of others").

[A new society doesn't create itself overnight. It is important to first have its form in your head, the same way they had an idea of the boat before cutting down the tree.]

[Everyone has something to learn. Pedro knows how to cultivate cacao. Antonio knows how to print a journal. Each one doesn't have the knowledge of the other. Both the cultivation of cacao and printing of journals are important practices for national reconstruction.]

[The human body is conscious and working involves the whole body - using one's hands involves thinking. This makes it erroneous to separate manual and intellectual labour. Rural and factory workers are intellectuals also. Only in societies that look down on using the hands for practical activities are cacao cultivation and journal printing seen as inferior.]

[Before literacy, we are already 'reading' the world: we look at the sky and the colour of the clouds to anticipate whether it will rain and the amount of precipitation.]

[Culture is: the instruments used by the people to produce; the form of understanding and expressing; the drum; the movement of bodies in rhythm to the drums.]

[Nobody ignores everything. Nobody knows everything. This is why we always learn.]

[Our comrades learn to read and write while discussing subjects of interest to our people.]

[The search to know more continues in the struggles that continue. Victory is ours.]

[If you don't understand a word and don't find it in the vocabulary at the end of this notebook, ask a comrade or speak with the cultural animator (a comrade also).]

[It is not studied in a school: they studied while working. To study is to take a serious and curious attitude while confronting a problem.]

[Studying requires discipline. To study is not easy: it means to create and recreate, as opposed to repeating what someone else said.]

[There is considered to be no knowledge outside of school. But there is, and this 'knowledge from experience' must be the starting point for popular education.]

[The act of studying is an expression of being human, social, historical, doers, transformational.]

[Swimming, one learns to swim. Working, one learns to work. Practicing, one learns to practice better.]

The difference between starting to learn a language with "Hi, How are you? My name is…" and starting to practice literacy with "school, land, cultivate, product". Can the pedagogical process for learning also be improved by focusing on the student's social context and the self-empowerment of self-expression?

We might underestimate the value of repetition: what is the value of repeating at every exercise "Practice to learn, learn to practice better"?

[The people have a right to seek a better understanding of themselves, rather than merely responding to researchers' questions.]

[The process of alphabetization must contribute to the people's remaking of themselves, with their history in their hands.]

[To be present in history means to be conscious of the difficulties in one's process of liberation. To be merely represented in history happens when passively accepting how another recounts.]

[Alphabetization needs to be grounded in the political activation of its students. Mechanical training in linguistics will lead them to be represented in history as opposed to present within it.]

[Students are not patients to be fixed. The position of 'whoever knows should teach whoever doesn't know' is authoritarian.]

[Knowledge is not something fixed and final to be transferred to those who don't have it.]

[The leverage of reading and writing comes from the words of the literate and not from the educator's experience.]

[Reading words is preceded by reading the world.]

[Education is political. Politics educates.]