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

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.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.