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Freire in Education for Critical Consciousness (2002/1973): > If [people] are unable to perceive critically the themes of their time, and thus to intervene actively in reality, they are carried along in the wake of change. They see that the times are changing, but they are submerged in that change

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BTW I changed 'men' to 'people'. The casual and seemingy unexamined sexism of the language in Freire is quite grating and/but whenever I see it, I think of what bell hooks said on this point (in a conversation with 'Gloria Watkins' in Teaching to transgress, hooks 1994:49) #feminism #sexism #freire