"The educator's role is to help people come to see the world as a problem to be solved."

"Dialogue cannot exist without humility."

"The object of the banking concept of education is to turn them into automatons—the minimization of their creative power."

"The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it."

"The oppressed must be the architects of their own liberation."