Paulo Freire:

The oppressor is not able to understand that the oppressed, far from being purely 'emotional,' are, as the oppressed, involved in a concrete situation of oppression, and that their 'emotionality' is not a pathological state but the result of the historical and sociological conditions in which they are immersed.

— Paulo Freire Modern

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Context

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Date / Period

1968

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