With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

language is never neutral

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

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