What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.