"Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence."

"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world…"

"The capacity to reflect critically on reality and to act on it to transform it."

"Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world."

"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed."