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Libertarian Action Must Recognize This Dependence As A Weak Point And Must Attempt Through Reflection And Action To Transform It Into Independence. However, Not Even The Best-intentioned Leadership Can Bestow Independence As A Gift. The Liberation Of The Oppressed Is A Liberation Of Women And Men, Not Things. Accordingly, While No One Liberates Himself By His Own Efforts Alone, Neither Is He Liberated By Others. Liberation, A Human Phenomenon, Cannot Be Achieved By Semihumans. Any Attempt To Treat People As Semihumans Only Dehumanizes Them.

Education Must Begin With The Solution Of The Teacher-student Contradiction, By Reconciling The Poles Of The Contradiction So That Both Are Simultaneously Teachers And Students.

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.

This Pedagogy Makes Oppression And Its Causes Objects Of Reflection By The Oppressed, And From That Reflection Will Come Their Necessary Engagement In The Struggle For Their Liberation. And In The Struggle This Pedagogy Will Be Made And Remade

The Role Of The Educator Is One Of Tranquil Possession Of Certitude In Regard To The Teaching Of Not Only Contents But Also Of 'correct Thinking.'