Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

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.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

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

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.