Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student..

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are..

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce..

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity..

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success..

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor..

Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and u….

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

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act..

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very….

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation..

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

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well..

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it..

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn….

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total resp….

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women..

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement i….

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as somethin….

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncemen….

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual..