In Order For This Struggle To Have

The Former Oppressors Do Not Feel Liberated. On The Contrary, They Genuinely Consider Themselves To Be Oppressed.

I Am An Educator Who Thinks Globally.

The Oppressed Want At Any Cost To Resemble The Oppressors." "they Call Themselves Ignorant And Say The 'professor' Is The One Who Has Knowledge And To Whom They Should Listen." "almost Never Do They Realize That They, Too, 'know Things' They Have Learned In Their Relations With The World.

An Unauthentic Word, One Which Is Unable To Transform Reality, Results When Dichotomy Is Imposed Upon Its Constitutive Elements. When A Word Is Deprived Of Its Dimension Of Action, Reflection Automatically Suffers As Well; And The Word Is Changed Into Idle Chatter, Into Verbalism, Into An Alienated And Alienating “blah.” It Becomes An Empty Word, One Which Cannot Denounce The World, For Denunciation Is Impossible Without A Commitment To Transform, And There Is No Transformation Without Action.

The Oppressors Develop A Series Of Methods Precluding Any Presentation Of The World As A Problem And Showing It Rather As A Fixed Entity, As Something Given--something To Which People, As Mere Spectators, Must Adapt.