"The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but he who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a proces…"

"The oppressor's consciousness tends to transform everything surrounding it into an object of its domination."

"It is exactly in these conditions—in the conditions of oppression—that the oppressed can come to understand the oppressors and their oppression."

"The banking concept of education, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor, leads to the students' being treated as objects."

"The educator must be a kind of gardener, cultivating the seeds of critical consciousness."