From the Outside Looking In Quotes

“Discovery is not seeing what there is (that is impossible at any level), but rather allowing oneself to converge towards a continually freshly-created reality.”
― Manfred Max-Neef, From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics

“They felt that conscientization had to precede any efforts towards participation in and for development. Although this concept was pretty much in vogue at the time...I felt an intuitive dislike for it. It seemed to me that it contained an implicit assumption--sometimes even explicit--that a certain state of ignorance or unawareness prevails among the rural poor with respect to their real problems. I had never been willing to believe that this is the case.”
― Manfred Max-Neef, From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics