P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?
No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?
...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
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...
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and respon...
P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...