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Paulo Freire Quotes: No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
         

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.


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It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.





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