For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.

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

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.

language is never neutral

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.