Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

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

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.