Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.