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

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

"To be human is to be in a constant process of becoming."

"No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are."

"The capacity to reflect critically on reality and to act on it to transform it."