Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.