... 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.

Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.

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.

People in communion liberate each other.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

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.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.