Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

Paulo Freire
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  1. As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

  2. In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power, ” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated...

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