No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.