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.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

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

Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.

Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.