Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

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.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.