If The Structure Does Not Permit Dialogue

The Oppressors Do Not Favor Promoting The Community As A Whole, But Rather Selected Leaders.

Education As The Exercise Of Domination Stimulates The Credulity Of The Students.

... Studying Is A Preparation For Knowing; It Is A Patient And Impatient Exercise On The Part Of Someone Whose Intent Is Not To Know It All At Once But To Struggle To Meet The Timing Of Knowledge.

Authentic Thinking, Thinking That Is Concerned About Reality, Does Not Take Place In Ivory Tower Isolation, But Only In Communication. If It Is True That Thought Has Meaning Only When Generated By Action Upon The World, The Subordination Of Students To Teachers Becomes Impossible.

Transformation Is Only Valid If It Is Carried Out With The People, Not For Them. Liberation Is Like A Childbirth, And A Painful One. The Person Who Emerges Is A New Person: No Longer Either Oppressor Or Oppressed, But A Person In The Process Of Achieving Freedom. It Is Only The Oppressed Who, By Freeing Themselves, Can Free Their Oppressors.