"Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning."

"The task of the oppressed is to discover that they are oppressed."

"Problem-posing education, as a humanistic and liberating praxis, constantly serves that end. Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term…"

"Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human."

"Without this love, dialogue is at best a horizontal relationship of two 'I's' who, however, have no more than a superficial, verbal encounter."