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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.

The Teacher Is Of Course An Artist, But Being An Artist Does Not Mean That He Or She Can Make The Profile, Can Shape The Students. What The Educator Does In Teaching Is To Make It Possible For The Students To Become Themselves.

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.

This Pedagogy Makes Oppression And Its Causes Objects Of Reflection By The Oppressed, And From That Reflection Will Come Their Necessary Engagement In The Struggle For Their Liberation. And In The Struggle This Pedagogy Will Be Made And Remade

If It Is In Speaking Their Word That People, By Naming The World, Transform It, Dialogue Imposes Itself As The Way By Which They Achieve Significance As Human Beings.