Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

About This Quote

About Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire was a 20th-century Brazilian educator. Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines teaching as a collaborative act of liberation rather than transmission. Read more on Wikipedia →

More quotes by Paulo Freire

Related Quotes