Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.