"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…"

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

"The unauthentic word, lacking a sense of responsibility for the world, cannot transform it."

"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."

"Problem-posing education, as a humanistic and liberating praxis, constantly serves that end. Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term…"