To Teach Is Part Of

Submission To Suffering Is A Form Of Annihilation, But Transformation Of Suffering Rekindles A Faith That Gives Life.

Washing One's Hands Of The Conflict Between The Powerful And The Powerless Means To Side With The Powerful, Not To Be Neutral.

Education Must Begin With The Solution Of The Teacher-student Contradiction, By Reconciling The Poles Of The Contradiction So That Both Are Simultaneously Teachers And Students.

The More Students Work At Storing The Deposits Entrusted To Them, The Less They Develop The Critical Consciousness Which Would Result From Their Intervention In The World As Transformers Of That World. The More Completely They Accept The Passive Role Impressed On Them, The More They Tend Simply To Adapt To The World As It Is And To The Fragmented View Of Reality Deposited In Them.

... Studying Is A Preparation For Knowing; It Is A Patient And Impatient Exercise On The Part Of Someone Whose Intent Is Not To Know It All At Once But To Struggle To Meet The Timing Of Knowledge.