Experience Teaches Us Not To Assume That

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.

Education As The Exercise Of Domination Stimulates The Credulity Of The Students.

It Is Not Systematic Education Which Somehow Molds Society, But, On The Contrary, Society Which, According To Its Particular Structure, Shapes Education In Relation To The Ends And Interests Of Those Who Control The Power In That Society.

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.

... There Are Moments In Which The Teacher, As The Authority Talks To The Learners, Says What Must Be Done, Establishes Limits Without Which The Very Freedom Of Learners Is Lost In Lawlessness, But These Moments, In Accordance With The Political Options Of The Educator, Are Alternated With Others In Which The Educator Speaks With The Learner.