Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
No reality transforms itself.
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.
Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.