Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

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.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.