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

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

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood