It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

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.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'