To Speak A True Word Is To

What If We Discover That Our Present Way Of Life Is Irreconcilable With Our Vocation To Become Fully Human?

Education Is An Act Of Love, And Thus An Act Of Courage

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.

How Can The Oppressed, As Divided, Unauthentic Beings, Participate In Developing The Pedagogy Of Their Liberation? Only As They Discover Themselves To Be 'hosts' Of The Oppressor Can They Contribute To The Midwifery Of Their Liberating Pedagogy. As Long As They Live In The Duality In Which To Be Is To Be Like And To Be Like Is To Be Like The Oppressor, This Contribution Is Impossible. The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Is An Instrument For Their Critical Discovery That Both They And Their Oppressors Are Manifestations Of Dehumanization.

[humans'] Capacity To Intervene, To Compare, To Judge, To Decide, To Choose, To Desist Makes Them Capable Of Acts Of Greatness, Of Dignity, And, At The Same Time, Of The Unthinkable In Terms Of Indignity.