Those Truly Committed To Liberation Must Reject

Welfare Programs As Instruments Of Manipulation Ultimately Serve The End Of Conquest. They Act As An Anesthetic, Distracting The Oppressed From The True Causes Of Their Problems And From The Concrete Solutions Of These Problems.

How Can The Oppressed, As Divided, Unauthentic Beings, Participate In Developing The Pedagogy Of Their Liberation?

The More Students Work At Storing The Deposits Entrusted To Them, The Less They Develop The Critical Consciousness Which Would Result From Their Intervention In The World As Transformers Of That World. The More Completely They Accept The Passive Role Impressed On Them, The More They Tend Simply To Adapt To The World As It Is And To The Fragmented View Of Reality Deposited In Them.

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.

Whether The Teacher Is Authoritarian, Undisciplined, Competent, Incompetent, Serious, Irresponsible, Involved, A Lover Of People And Of Life, Cold, Angry With The World, Bureaucratic, Excessively Rational, Or Whatever Else, He/she Will Not Pass Through The Classroom Without Leaving His Or Her Mark On The Students.