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.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

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

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.