Paulo Freire Quotes

Freedom can occur only through education.

Only the educated are free.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Education liberates a woman.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

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