In The Banking Concept Of Education, Knowledge

The Teacher Is Of Course An Artist, But Being An Artist Does Not Mean That He Or She Can Make The Profile, Can Shape The Students. What The Educator Does In Teaching Is To Make It Possible For The Students To Become Themselves.

I Hope At Least That The Following Will Endure: My Trust In The People, And My Faith In Men And Women, And In The Creation Of A World In Which It Will Be Easier To Love

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

To Study Is Not To Consume Ideas, But To Create And Re-create Them.

It Is Not Systematic Education Which Somehow Molds Society, But, On The Contrary, Society Which, According To Its Particular Structure, Shapes Education In Relation To The Ends And Interests Of Those Who Control The Power In That Society.