Any Attempt To Treat People As Semihumans

To Teach Is Part Of The Very Fabric Of Learning.

Just As It Is Important In Latin America To Discuss Ideas That Come From North America, I Think It Is Interesting For North Americans To Discuss Ideas That Come From Latin America Or Africa And Do Not Insert Themselves Into Capitalist Interests.

It Is Impossible To Talk Of Respect For Students For The Dignity That Is In The Process Of Coming To Be, For The Identities That Are In The Process Of Construction, Without Taking Into Consideration The Conditions In Which They Are Living And The Importance Of The Knowledge Derived From Life Experience, Which They Bring With Them To School. I Can In No Way Underestimate Such Knowledge. Or What Is Worse, Ridicule It.

The Parent-child Relationship In The Home Usually Reflects The Objective Cultural Conditions Of The Surrounding Social Structure. If The Conditions Which Penetrate The Home Are Authoritarian, Rigid, And Dominating, The Home Will Increase The Climate Of Oppression. As These Authoritarian Relations Between Parents And Children Intensify, Children In Their Infancy Increasingly Internalize The Paternal Authority.

Any Situation In Which Some Men Prevent Others From Engaging In The Process Of Inquiry Is One Of Violence;… To Alienate Humans From Their Own Decision Making Is To Change Them Into Objects.