I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

... 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.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.