Without A Minimum Of Hope, We Cannot

In Sum: Banking Theory And Practice, As Immobilizing And Fixating Forces, Fail To Acknowledge Men And Women As Historical Beings; Problem-posing Theory And Practice Take The People's Historicity As Their Starting Point.

I Am An Educator Who Thinks Globally.

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.

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.

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