Reflection And Action Must Never Be Undertaken

Through Dialogue, The Teacher-of-the-students And The Students-of-the-teacher Cease To Exist And A New Term Emerges: Teacher-student With Students-teachers.

Educators Need To Know What Happens In The World Of The Children With Whom They Work. They Need To Know The Universe Of Their Dreams, The Language With Which They Skillfully Defend Themselves From The Aggressiveness Of Their World, What They Know Independently Of The School, And How They Know It.

Attempting To Liberate The Oppressed Without Their Reflective Participation In The Act Of Liberation Is To Treat Them As Objects That Must Be Saved From A Burning Building.

The Road To Revolution Involves Openness To The People, Not Imperviousness To Them; It Involves Communion With The People, Not Mistrust.

The Oppressed Want At Any Cost To Resemble The Oppressors." "they Call Themselves Ignorant And Say The 'professor' Is The One Who Has Knowledge And To Whom They Should Listen." "almost Never Do They Realize That They, Too, 'know Things' They Have Learned In Their Relations With The World.