It Would Be Extremely Naive To Expect

It Is Impossible To Talk Of Respect For Students For The Dignity That Is In The Process Of Coming To Be, For The Identities That Are In The Process Of Construction, Without Taking Into Consideration The Conditions In Which They Are Living And The Importance Of The Knowledge Derived From Life Experience, Which They Bring With Them To School. I Can In No Way Underestimate Such Knowledge. Or What Is Worse, Ridicule It.

It Is In Our Incompleteness, Of Which We Are Aware, That Education As A Permanent Process Is Grounded. Women And Men Are Capable Of Being Educated Only To The Extent That They Are Capable Of Recognizing Themselves As Unfinished.

If The Structure Does Not Permit Dialogue The Structure Must Be Changed

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

Reflection And Action Must Never Be Undertaken Independently.