"The teacher is not merely a facilitator but also a cultural worker."

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

"The oppressor's consciousness tends to transform everything surrounding it into an object of its domination."

"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…"

"The educator must be a kind of gardener, cultivating the seeds of critical consciousness."