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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.

How Can I Be An Educator If I Do Not Develop In Myself A Caring And Loving Attitude Toward The Student, Which Is Indispensable On The Part Of One Who Is Committed To Teaching And To The Education Process Itself.

Individuals Who Were Submerged In Reality, Merely Feeling Their Needs, Emerge From Reality And Perceive The Causes Of Their Needs.

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

... Teaching Cannot Be A Process Of Transference Of Knowledge From The One Teaching To The Learner. This Is The Mechanical Transference From Which Results Machinelike Memorization, Which I Have Already Criticized. Critical Study Correlates With Teaching That Is Equally Critical, Which Necessarily Demands A Critical Way Of Comprehending And Of Realizing The Reading Of The Word And That Of The World, The Reading Of Text And Of Context.