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

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

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

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.