"The object of dialogue is not to conquer but to clarify, to make explicit, to make visible the implicit."

"The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but he who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a proces…"

"The teacher is not merely a transmitter of knowledge, but a co-creator of knowledge."

"Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human."

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