Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.