No Matter How Much Someone May Irritate

Authentic Thinking, Thinking That Is Concerned About Reality, Does Not Take Place In Ivory Tower Isolation, But Only In Communication. If It Is True That Thought Has Meaning Only When Generated By Action Upon The World, The Subordination Of Students To Teachers Becomes Impossible.

To Affirm That Men And Women Are Persons And As Persons Should Be Free, And Yet To Do Nothing Tangible To Make This Affirmation A Reality, Is A Farce.

If I Am A Pure Product Of Genetic, Cultural, Or Class Determination, I Have No Responsibility For My Action In The World And, Therefore, It Is Not Possible For Me To Speak Of Ethics. Of Course, This Assumption Of Responsibility Does Not Mean That We Are Not Conditioned Genetically, Culturally, And Socially. It Means That We Know Ourselves To Be Conditioned But Not Determined.

How Can The Oppressed, As Divided, Unauthentic Beings, Participate In Developing The Pedagogy Of Their Liberation?

As One Might Expect, Authoritarianism Will At Times Cause Children And Students To Adopt Rebellious Positions, Defiant Of Any Limit, Discipline, Or Authority. But It Will Also Lead To Apathy, Excessive Obedience, Uncritical Conformity, Lack Of Resistance Against Authoritarian Discourse, Self-abnegation, And Fear Of Freedom.