Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

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

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.