I am an educator who thinks globally.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.