Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

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.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.