What If We Discover That Our Present

No Pedagogy Which Is Truly Liberating Can Remain Distant From The Oppressed By Treating Them As Unfortunates And By Presenting For Their Emulation Models From Among The Oppressors. The Oppressed Must Be Their Own Example In The Struggle For Their Redemption (freire, 1970, P. 54).

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.

Submission To Suffering Is A Form Of Annihilation, But Transformation Of Suffering Rekindles A Faith That Gives Life.

Critical Reflection On Practice Is A Requirement Of The Relationship Between Theory And Practice. Otherwise Theory Becomes Simply "blah, Blah, Blah, " And Practice, Pure Activism.

When We Live Our Lives With The Authenticity Demanded By The Practice Of Teaching That Is Also Learning And Learning That Is Also Teaching, We Are Participating In A Total Experience.... In This Experience The Beautiful, The Decent, And The Serious Form A Circle With Hands Joined.