The Educator Has The Duty Of Not

Only Through Communication Can Human Life Hold Meaning.

The Oppressors Develop A Series Of Methods Precluding Any Presentation Of The World As A Problem And Showing It Rather As A Fixed Entity, As Something Given--something To Which People, As Mere Spectators, Must Adapt.

Teachers And Students (leadership And People), Co-intent On Reality, Are Both Subjects, Not Only In The Task Of Unveiling That Reality, And Thereby Coming To Know It Critically, But In The Task Of Re-creating That Knowledge. As They Attain This Knowledge Of Reality Through Common Reflection And Action, They Discover Themselves As Its Permanent Re-creators.

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

At Times, I Have Been Criticized By Some Philosophers Of Education, Who Place Me In Postures That They Classify Pejoratively As 'revolutionary.' But I Have Had The Satisfaction Of Being Invited To Work In Societies Making Progressive Efforts Without Wavering. They Were Changing, And So They Called On Me.