... 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.

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.