One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

language is never neutral

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed