Reading Is Not Walking On The Words;

True Generosity Consists Precisely In Fighting To Destroy The Causes Which Nourish False Charity. False Charity Constrains The Fearful And Subdued, The "rejects Of Life," To Extend Their Trembling Hands. True Generosity Lies In Striving So That These Hands--whether Of Individuals Or Entire Peoples--need Be Extended Less And Less In Supplication, So That More And More They Become Human Hands Which Work And, Working, Transform The World.

The Oppressed, Instead Of Striving For Liberation, Tend Themselves To Become Oppressors.

Individuals Who Were Submerged In Reality, Merely Feeling Their Needs, Emerge From Reality And Perceive The Causes Of Their Needs.

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.

This Is The Road I Have Tried To Follow As A Teacher: Living My Convictions; Being Open To The Process Of Knowing And Being Sensitive To The Experience Of Teaching As An Art; Being Pushed Forward By The Challenges That Prevent Me From Bureaucratizing My Practice; Accepting My Limitations, Yet Always Conscious Of The Necessary Effort To Overcome Them And Aware That I Cannot Hide Them Because To Do So Would Be A Failure To Respect Both My Students And Myself As A Teacher.