To Study Is Not To Consume Ideas,

Some May Think That To Affirm Dialogue—the Encounter Of Women And Men In The World In Order To Transform The World—is Naively And Subjectively Idealistic. There Is Nothing, However, More Real Or Concrete Than People In The World And With The World, Than Humans With Other Humans.

Education Must Begin With The Solution Of The Teacher-student Contradiction, By Reconciling The Poles Of The Contradiction So That Both Are Simultaneously Teachers And Students.

Liberation Is A Praxis: The Action And Reflection Of Men And Women Upon Their World In Order To Transform It.

One Of My Major Preoccupations Is The Approximation Between What I Say And What I Do, Between What I Seem To Be And What I Am Actually Becoming.

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.