Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

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

I am an educator who thinks globally.

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.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.