Dialogue is an existential necessity, not a technique for exchanging ideas

Evidence

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings. Dialogue is thus an existential necessity. And since dialogue is the encounter in which the united reflection and action of the dialoguers are addressed to the world which is to be transformed and humanized, this dialogue cannot be reduced to the act of one person’s “depositing” ideas in another, nor can it become a simple exchange of ideas to be “consumed” by the discussants. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 262

Categorization

• XREF: Directly names the banking model’s deposit metaphor as the antithesis of dialogue — the reader’s core redesign pivot. — connects to: Philosophical language must interweave expression and communication, neither reducible to the other — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1014; Experiments are a form of conversation, not discovery — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 552; Existentialist conversation is a revelation of the whole person, not just ideas — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 99 (+1 more)