Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

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

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.