... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.