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Footnotes for Preface

1. The term conscientização refers to learning to perceive social, political and economic contradictions, and to take action against the oppressive elements of reality. See chapter 3. - Translator's note.

2. The term Subjects denotes those who know and act, in contrast to objects, which are known and acted upon. - Translator's note.

3. Francisco Weffort, in the preface to Paulo Freire, Educação Como Prática da Liberdade (Rio de Janeiro, 1967).

Translation (from Portuguese): Education as the Practice of Freedom...I think it may have been republished in English by Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative in 1976

4. Georg Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind (New York, 1967), p. 233.

5. In Educação Como Prática da Liberdade

6. "As long as theoretic knowledge remains the privilege of a handful of 'academicians' in the Party, the latter will face the danger of going astray." Rosa Luxembourg, Reform or Revolution, cited in C. Wright Mills, The Marxists (New York, 1963).