Teachers Who Do Not Take Their Own

It Is Absolutely Essential That The Oppressed Participate In The Revolutionary Process With An Increasingly Critical Awareness Of Their Role As Subjects Of The Transformation.

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.

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

I Have Never Said, As Is Sometimes Believed, Or Even Suggested That Lower-class Children Should Not Learn The So-called Educated Norm Of The Portuguese Language Of Brazil. What I Have Said Is That The Problems Of Language Always Involve Ideological Questions And, Along With Them, Questions Of Power.

Freedom Is Acquired By Conquest, Not By Gift. It Must Be Pursued Constantly And Responsibly. Freedom Is Not An Ideal Located Outside Of Man; Nor Is It An Idea Which Becomes Myth. It Is Rather The Indispensable Condition For The Quest For Human Completion.