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

"It is not possible to teach without a dream."

"The educator's role is to propose problems to the students, to make them question their own assumptions about the world."

"The oppressed know that they are oppressed, but they do not know the causes of their oppression."

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