“Dialogue … is an act of creation. … Dialogue cannot exist … in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people. … Love is at the same time the foundation of dialogue and dialogue itself. It is thus necessarily the task of responsible Subjects and cannot exist in a relation of domination. … If I do not love the world – if I do not love life – if I do not love people – I cannot enter into dialogue. …

On the other hand, dialogue cannot exist without humility. … How can I dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own? … How can I dialogue if I start from the premise that naming the world is the task of an elite and that the presence of the people in history is a sign of deterioration, thus to be avoided? …

Dialogue further requires an intense faith in humankind, faith in their power to make and remake, to create and re-create …

Dialogue cannot be carried out in a climate of hopelessness. If the dialoguers expect nothing to come of their efforts, their encounter will be empty and sterile, bureaucratic and tedious. …

Only dialogue, which requires critical thinking, is also capable of generating critical thinking. Without dialogue there is no communication, and without communication there can be no true education.”

aus: Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the oppressed. London u.a.: Penguin 1996 (1970), S.70-74.

Abb.: Jonathas de Andrade: Educação para Adultos, 2010. Historical material collected, im Internet.

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