In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.