How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves t….

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attentio….

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves..

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning ….

The multitude is always in the wrong..

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decisio….

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss idea….

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to c….

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different ….

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the t….

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space..

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at t….

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students..

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition….

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, t….

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over..

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoc….

I am an educator who thinks globally..

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, a….

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limi….