In Order To Have The Continued Opportunity

Libertarian Action Must Recognize This Dependence As A Weak Point And Must Attempt Through Reflection And Action To Transform It Into Independence. However, Not Even The Best-intentioned Leadership Can Bestow Independence As A Gift. The Liberation Of The Oppressed Is A Liberation Of Women And Men, Not Things. Accordingly, While No One Liberates Himself By His Own Efforts Alone, Neither Is He Liberated By Others. Liberation, A Human Phenomenon, Cannot Be Achieved By Semihumans. Any Attempt To Treat People As Semihumans Only Dehumanizes Them.

The More Students Work At Storing The Deposits Entrusted To Them, The Less They Develop The Critical Consciousness Which Would Result From Their Intervention In The World As Transformers Of That World. The More Completely They Accept The Passive Role Impressed On Them, The More They Tend Simply To Adapt To The World As It Is And To The Fragmented View Of Reality Deposited In Them.

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.

One Of My Major Preoccupations Is The Approximation Between What I Say And What I Do, Between What I Seem To Be And What I Am Actually Becoming.

In Sum: Banking Theory And Practice, As Immobilizing And Fixating Forces, Fail To Acknowledge Men And Women As Historical Beings; Problem-posing Theory And Practice Take The People's Historicity As Their Starting Point.