Dehumanization, Although A Concrete Historical Fact, Is

... Teaching Cannot Be A Process Of Transference Of Knowledge From The One Teaching To The Learner. This Is The Mechanical Transference From Which Results Machinelike Memorization, Which I Have Already Criticized. Critical Study Correlates With Teaching That Is Equally Critical, Which Necessarily Demands A Critical Way Of Comprehending And Of Realizing The Reading Of The Word And That Of The World, The Reading Of Text And Of Context.

To Speak A True Word Is To Transform The World.

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 Oppressed (whether Individuals Or Peoples) In The Incessant Struggle To Regain Their Humanity.

The More People Participate In The Process Of Their Own Education, And The More People Participate In Defining What Kind Of Production To Produce, And For What And Why, The More People Participate In The Development Of Their Selves. The More People Become Themselves, The Better The Democracy.

This Pedagogy Makes Oppression And Its Causes Objects Of Reflection By The Oppressed, And From That Reflection Will Come Their Necessary Engagement In The Struggle For Their Liberation. And In The Struggle This Pedagogy Will Be Made And Remade