Paulo Freire — "The object of the banking concept of education is to turn them into automatons—t…"

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

"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."

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

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

"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…"