Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.