Twitter Book Club: Paulo Freire (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch 2

I think these quotes speak for themselves. No need to embellish them. Freire, lays out as convincing case for inquiry-based learning I have ever seen.

"Education is suffering from narration sickness." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"Or else [the teacher] expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of the students." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"The more completely [the teacher] fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"The more the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hope (cont) http://tl.gd/3b87dpless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of (cont) http://tl.gd/3b88v2less than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the students' creative power and to stimulate (cont) http://tl.gd/3b8bcrless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"they react instinctively against any experiment in education which stimulates the critical faculties" Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"The teacher cannot think for her students, nor can she impose her thought on them." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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@anderscj nor should she want to! :)less than a minute ago via TweetDeckAdrienne Michetti
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@amichetti that was my favorite Paulo Freire quote for the night. Frighteningly simple and true.less than a minute ago via Twitterrificanderscj
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"Authentic liberation--the process of humanization--is not another deposit to be made in men." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"The banking method emphasizes permanence and becomes reactionary;" Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"problem-posing education--which accepts neither a 'well-behaved' present nor predetermined future--roots (cont) http://tl.gd/3b93kjless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"problem-posing education--which accepts neither a 'well-behaved' present nor predetermined future (cont) http://tl.gd/3b93kj via @anderscjless than a minute ago via TweetDeckMary Loftus
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"Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence." Freireless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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RT @anderscj: "Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence." Freireless than a minute ago via TweetDeckDermot Casey
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