Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

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

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

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