Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

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.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Love and betrayal comes hand in hand.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Every note has to come out clean.

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.