Reflection And Action Must Never Be Undertaken

In The Banking Concept Of Education, Knowledge Is A Gift Bestowed By Those Who Consider Themselves Knowledgeable Upon Those Whom They Consider To Know Nothing... The Teacher Presents Himself To His Students As Their Necessary Opposite; By Considering Their Ignorance Absolute, He Justifies His Own Existence.

Problem-posing Education Affirms Men And Women As Beings In The Process Of Becoming.

If I Am A Pure Product Of Genetic, Cultural, Or Class Determination, I Have No Responsibility For My Action In The World And, Therefore, It Is Not Possible For Me To Speak Of Ethics. Of Course, This Assumption Of Responsibility Does Not Mean That We Are Not Conditioned Genetically, Culturally, And Socially. It Means That We Know Ourselves To Be Conditioned But Not Determined.

Within The Word We Find Two Dimensions-reflection And Action. If One Is Sacrificed Even In Part, The Other Immediately Suffers. To Speak A True Word Is To Transform The World.

To Affirm That Men And Women Are Persons And As Persons Should Be Free, And Yet To Do Nothing Tangible To Make This Affirmation A Reality, Is A Farce.