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

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

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.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

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.