Love Is An Act Of Courage.

I Am Dealing With People And Not With Things. And, Because I Am Dealing With People, I Cannot Refuse My Wholehearted And Loving Attention, Even In Personal Matters, Where I See That A Student Is In Need Of Such Attention.

At Times, I Have Been Criticized By Some Philosophers Of Education, Who Place Me In Postures That They Classify Pejoratively As 'revolutionary.' But I Have Had The Satisfaction Of Being Invited To Work In Societies Making Progressive Efforts Without Wavering. They Were Changing, And So They Called On Me.

When We Live Our Lives With The Authenticity Demanded By The Practice Of Teaching That Is Also Learning And Learning That Is Also Teaching, We Are Participating In A Total Experience.... In This Experience The Beautiful, The Decent, And The Serious Form A Circle With Hands Joined.

Education Is Freedom. Education Will Teach You How To Do It Yourself As Opposed To Asking Someone Else To Do It For You. And Around It Our Own Town... Freemanville!

... Teaching Cannot Be A Process Of Transference Of Knowledge From The One Teaching To The Learner. This Is The Mechanical Transference From Which Results Machinelike Memorization, Which I Have Already Criticized. Critical Study Correlates With Teaching That Is Equally Critical, Which Necessarily Demands A Critical Way Of Comprehending And Of Realizing The Reading Of The Word And That Of The World, The Reading Of Text And Of Context.