1. “Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.”
2. “No reality transforms itself.”
3. “There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.”
4. “To speak a true word is to transform the world.”
5. “To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and recreate them.
6. “No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.”
7. “The future isn’t something hidden in a corner. The future is something we build in the present.”
8. “Dialogue cannot exist without humility.”
9. “It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.”
10. “Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world for the world and its people.”
11. “The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
12. “The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.”
13. “Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.”
14. “Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.”
15. “Without a minimum hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.”
16. “Love is an act of courage.”
17. “Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.”
18. “Only through communication can human life hold meaning.”
19. “One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.”
20. “To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.”
21. “Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.”
22. “The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.”
23. “For people ‘here’ signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.”
24. “Education is suffering from narration sickness.”
25. “The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.”
26. “To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”
27. “Faith in people is an priori requirement for dialogue.”
28. “People in communion liberate each other.”
29. “Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.”
30. “The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.”
