Paulo Freire — "Men are not built in silence but in word, in work, in action-reflection."

"The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can design the profile. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the stu…"

"Hope is an ontological need."

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

"The pedagogy of the oppressed, animated by authentic, humanist (not humanitarian) generosity, presents itself as a pedagogy of man."

"To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the production or construction of knowledge."