"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed."

"To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the production or construction of knowledge."

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

"Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which must be saved from a burning building - it is to make them the pa…"

"Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion."