I Cannot Be A Teacher Without Exposing

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 Personal Matters, Where I See That A Student Is In Need Of Such Attention.

... 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.

Being Tolerant Does Not Mean Acquiescing To The Intolerable; It Does Not Mean Covering Up Disrespect; It Does Not Mean Coddling The Aggressor Or Disguising Aggression. Tolerance Is The Virtue That Teaches Us To Live With The Different. It Teaches Us To Learn From And Respect The Different.

It Is Necessary That The Weakness Of The Powerless Is Transformed Into A Force Capable Of Announcing Justice. For This To Happen, A Total Denouncement Of Fatalism Is Necessary. We Are Transformative Beings And Not Beings For Accommodation.

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 Decision Making Is To Change Them Into Objects.