Love Is An Act Of Courage.

Leaders Who Do Not Act Dialogically, But Insist On Imposing Their Decisions, Do Not Organize The People--they Manipulate Them. They Do Not Liberate, Nor Are They Liberated: They Oppress.

Every Relationship Of Domination, Of Exploitation, Of Oppression Is By Definition Violent, Whether Or Not The Violence Is Expressed By Drastic Means. In Such A Relationship, Dominator And Dominated Alike Are Reduced To Things- The Former Dehumanized By An Excess Of Power, The Latter By A Lack Of It. And Things Cannot Love.

Through Dialogue, The Teacher-of-the-students And The Students-of-the-teacher Cease To Exist And A New Term Emerges: Teacher-student With Students-teachers.

The Teacher Is No Longer Merely The-one-who-teaches, But One Who Is Him/herself Taught In Dialogue With The Students, Who In Turn While Being Taught Also Teach. They Become Jointly Responsible For A Process In Which All Grow.

Coherently Democratic Authority Carries The Conviction That True Discipline Does Not Exist In The Muteness Of Those Who Have Been Silenced But In The Stirrings Of Those Who Have Been Challenged, In The Doubt Of Those Who Have Been Prodded, And In The Hopes Of Those Who Have Been Awakened.