Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies..

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection..

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'.

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….

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am..

The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, an….

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

To speak a true word is to transform the world..

The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is su….

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

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means.….

Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But on….

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to….

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolute….

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming..

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social in….

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process o….

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning..

Love is an act of courage..

No reality transforms itself..