"Problem-posing education, as a humanistic and liberating praxis, posits as fundamental that men subjected to domination must fight for their emancipation."

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

"One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is the fatalistic perception of reality."

"The educator's role is to propose problems to the students, to make them question their own assumptions about the world."

"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."