Any Attempt To Treat People As Semihumans

The Object Of A Dialogical-liberterian Action Is Not To 'dislodge' The Oppressed From A Mythological Reality In Order To 'bind' Them To Another Reality. On The Contrary, The Object Of Dialogical Action Is To Make It Possible For The Oppressed, By Perceiving Their Adhesion, To Opt To Transform An Unjust Reality." "in Order For The Oppressed To Unite They Must First Cut The Umbilical Cord Of Magic And Myth Which Binds Them To The World Of Oppression; The Unity Which Links Them To Each Other Must Be Of A Different Nature.

I Have Never Said, As Is Sometimes Believed, Or Even Suggested That Lower-class Children Should Not Learn The So-called Educated Norm Of The Portuguese Language Of Brazil. What I Have Said Is That The Problems Of Language Always Involve Ideological Questions And, Along With Them, Questions Of Power.

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.

... 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.

It Would Be Extremely Naive To Expect The Dominant Classes To Develop A Type Of Education That Would Enable Subordinate Classes To Perceive Social Injustices Critically.