This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.