If The Structure Does Not Permit Dialogue

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.

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.

No Matter How Much Someone May Irritate Me, I Have No Right To Puff Myself Up With My Own Self-importance So As To Declare That Person To Be Absolutely Incompetent, Assuming A Posture Of Disdain From My Own Position Of False Superiority.

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 Ideas That Come From Latin America Or Africa And Do Not Insert Themselves Into Capitalist Interests.

I Have Never Said, As Is Sometimes Believed, Or Even Suggested That Lower-class Children Should Not Learn The So-called Educated Norm Of The Portuguese Language Of Brazil. What I Have Said Is That The Problems Of Language Always Involve Ideological Questions And, Along With Them, Questions Of Power.