“In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.” PeopleMenProblemForcePracticeFailingTheoryMen And WomenHistoricalStartingAcknowledgeBankingStarting PointPosingTheory And Practice Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.” PeopleIfsLooksMistakeFailingBandStartingHorriblePainterIdiotNonprofitsHorrible Mistakes Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.” IfsKnowsHumansHas BeensPhilosophyWholeFailingBuildingTestsStartingDataTheoreticalStarting Point Author:Nancy Pearcey