Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

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 need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.

Love is cure, love is power, love is magicof changes, love is the mirror of divine beauty

I never fall in love because love is always inside me.

I could still box your ears.”“Nonsense, ” he scoffed. “You couldn’t reach that high.

I have wrote my name in hell, ” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.