Reflection And Action Must Never Be Undertaken

If The Structure Does Not Permit Dialogue The Structure Must Be Changed

The Intellectual Activity Of Those Without Power Is Always Characterized As Non-intellectual.

Education Either Functions As An Instrument Which Is Used To Facilitate Integration Of The Younger Generation Into The Logic Of The Present System And Bring About Conformity Or It Becomes The Practice Of Freedom, The Means By Which Men And Women Deal Critically And Creatively With Reality And Discover How To Participate In The Transformation Of Their World.

It Is In Our Incompleteness, Of Which We Are Aware, That Education As A Permanent Process Is Grounded. Women And Men Are Capable Of Being Educated Only To The Extent That They Are Capable Of Recognizing Themselves As Unfinished.

Transformation Is Only Valid If It Is Carried Out With The People, Not For Them. Liberation Is Like A Childbirth, And A Painful One. The Person Who Emerges Is A New Person: No Longer Either Oppressor Or Oppressed, But A Person In The Process Of Achieving Freedom. It Is Only The Oppressed Who, By Freeing Themselves, Can Free Their Oppressors.