It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

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

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

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

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.