How Can The Oppressed, As Divided, Unauthentic

Being Tolerant Does Not Mean Acquiescing To The Intolerable; It Does Not Mean Covering Up Disrespect; It Does Not Mean Coddling The Aggressor Or Disguising Aggression. Tolerance Is The Virtue That Teaches Us To Live With The Different. It Teaches Us To Learn From And Respect The Different.

Education As The Practice Of Freedom--as Opposed To Education As The Practice Of Domination--denies That Man Is Abstract, Isolated, Independent And Unattached To The World; It Also Denies That The World Exists As Reality Apart From People. Authentic Reflection Considers Neither Abstract Man Nor The World Without People, But People In Their Relations With The World. In These Relations Consciousness And World Are Simultaneous: Consciousness Neither Precedes The World Nor Follows It.

I Am An Educator Who Thinks Globally.

To Study Is Not To Consume Ideas, But To Create And Re-create Them.

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.