Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

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.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.