Paulo Freire — "The capacity to love is a condition of our humanity."

"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…"

"The transformation of the world is a historical task, not a metaphysical one."

"Looking at the past must be a means of understanding more clearly what and who we are so that we can more wisely build the future."

"Liberation is a childbirth, and a painful one."

"The pedagogy of the oppressed, as a humanist and liberatory pedagogy, has two distinct stages. In the first, the oppressed unveil the world of oppression and through the praxis transform it. In the se…"