It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

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.

Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die

At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.

...chuck-full of error, masturbation and Jesus.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

I loved Australia. I was very successful there