"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 naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not associated with the transformation of the world."

"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."

"The educator has the duty of not being neutral. Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others."

"This is why a truly liberating pedagogy, the pedagogy of freedom, must be praxis."