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[harlanpepper]

"there is no such thing as a neutral educational process. education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about comformity to it, or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." (shaull)

"this, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well." (freire)