Dialogue Cannot Exist Without Humility.

True Generosity Consists Precisely In Fighting To Destroy The Causes Which Nourish False Charity. False Charity Constrains The Fearful And Subdued, The "rejects Of Life," To Extend Their Trembling Hands. True Generosity Lies In Striving So That These Hands--whether Of Individuals Or Entire Peoples--need Be Extended Less And Less In Supplication, So That More And More They Become Human Hands Which Work And, Working, Transform The World.

Any Attempt To Treat People As Semihumans Only Dehumanizes Them.

Education Either Functions As An Instrument Which Is Used To Facilitate Integration Of The Younger Generation Into The Logic Of The Present System And Bring About Conformity Or It Becomes The Practice Of Freedom, The Means By Which Men And Women Deal Critically And Creatively With Reality And Discover How To Participate In The Transformation Of Their World.

The More People Participate In The Process Of Their Own Education, And The More People Participate In Defining What Kind Of Production To Produce, And For What And Why, The More People Participate In The Development Of Their Selves. The More People Become Themselves, The Better The Democracy.

Coherently Democratic Authority Carries The Conviction That True Discipline Does Not Exist In The Muteness Of Those Who Have Been Silenced But In The Stirrings Of Those Who Have Been Challenged, In The Doubt Of Those Who Have Been Prodded, And In The Hopes Of Those Who Have Been Awakened.