"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice…"

"It is not enough to read the word, but to read the world."

"The more accurately men grasp true causality, the more critical their understanding becomes."

"Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them."

"It is only when the oppressed are able to recognize the causes of their oppression that they can begin to change their situation."