The Oppressors Do Not Perceive Their Monopoly

A Fact Which Is Not Denied But Whose Truths Are Rationalized Loses Its Objective Base. It Ceases To Be Concrete And Becomes A Myth Created In Defense Of The Class Of The Perceiver.

An Unauthentic Word, One Which Is Unable To Transform Reality, Results When Dichotomy Is Imposed Upon Its Constitutive Elements. When A Word Is Deprived Of Its Dimension Of Action, Reflection Automatically Suffers As Well; And The Word Is Changed Into Idle Chatter, Into Verbalism, Into An Alienated And Alienating “blah.” It Becomes An Empty Word, One Which Cannot Denounce The World, For Denunciation Is Impossible Without A Commitment To Transform, And There Is No Transformation Without Action.

In Problem-posing Education, People Develop Their Power To Perceive Critically The Way They Exist In The World With Which And In Which They Find Themselves; They Come To See The World Not As A Static Reality, But As A Reality In Process, In Transformation.

There Is, In Fact, No Teaching Without Learning.

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.