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

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 o….

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education..

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But ….

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the ego….

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved f….

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitmen….

The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reali….

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

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world..

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

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity..

Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the wo….

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world f….

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who e….

some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively ideali….

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disg….

The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their inte….

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once b….

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subje….

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not po….