Indeed, The Interests Of The Oppressors Lie

Although The Teachers Or The Students Are Not The Same, The Person In Charge Of Education Is Being Formed Or Re-formed As He/she Teaches, And The Person Who Is Being Taught Forms Him/herself In The Process. ...there Is, In Fact, No Teaching Without Learning.

One Cannot Expect Positive Results From An Educational Or Political Action Program Which Fails To Respect The Particular View Of The World Held By The People. Such A Program Constitutes Cultural Invasion, Good Intentions Notwithstanding.

Washing One's Hands Of The Conflict Between The Powerful And The Powerless Means To Side With The Powerful, Not To Be Neutral.

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.

Certain Members Of The Oppressor Class Join The Oppressed In Their Struggle For Liberation.