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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
Education is freedom.
language is never neutral
Love is an act of courage.
No reality transforms itself.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
I am an educator who thinks globally.
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
People in communion liberate each other.
Education is suffering from narration sickness.
To speak a true word is to transform the world.
The educator has the duty of not being neutral.
I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'
Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed
No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.
Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood
A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
