Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and 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.

I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.