Submission To Suffering Is A Form Of

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.

The Road To Revolution Involves Openness To The People, Not Imperviousness To Them; It Involves Communion With The People, Not Mistrust.

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.

Organization Is Not Only Directly Linked To Unity, But A Natural Development Of That Unity. Accordingly, The Leaders' Pursuit Of That Unity Is Also An Attempt To Organize The People, Requiring Witness To The Fact That The Struggle For Liberation Is A Common Task." "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.

Education As The Exercise Of Domination Stimulates The Credulity Of Students, With The Ideological Intent (often Not Perceived By Educators) Of Indoctrinating Them To Adapt To The World Of Oppression.