... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

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

No reality transforms itself.

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.