An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is depri….

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the cont….

Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the expe….

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry..

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find them….

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-te….

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently..

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.

It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not w….

Dialogue cannot exist without humility..

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them..

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people..

Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former at….

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, hu….

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life..

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby c….

How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who….

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie..

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theo….

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs..

I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in pe….