Paulo Freire — "The oppressed are not marginal; they are 'beings for others.'"

"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 greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well."

"Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion."

"Without this love, dialogue is at best a horizontal relationship of two 'I's' who, however, have no more than a superficial, verbal encounter."

"The teacher is not a dispenser of knowledge but a facilitator of learning."