"The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it."

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

"The more accurately students understand the world, the more they are able to transform it."

"The pedagogy of the oppressed, as a humanist and liberatory pedagogy, has two distinct stages. In the first, the oppressed unveil the world of oppression and through the praxis transform it. In the se…"

"One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is the fatalistic perception of reality."