If The Structure Does Not Permit Dialogue

In Problem-posing Education, People Develop Their Power To Perceive Critically The Way They Exist In The World With Which And In Which They Find Themselves; They Come To See The World Not As A Static Reality, But As A Reality In Process, In Transformation.

The Behavior And Reactions Of The Oppressed, Which Lead The Oppressor To Practice Cultural Invasion, Should Evoke From The Revolutionary A Different Theory Of Action. What Distinguishes Revolutionary Leaders From The Dominant Elite Is Not Only Their Objectives, But Their Procedures.

Looking At The Past Must Only Be A Means Of Understanding More Clearly What And Who They Are So That They Can More Wisely Build The Future.

Being Tolerant Does Not Mean Acquiescing To The Intolerable; It Does Not Mean Covering Up Disrespect; It Does Not Mean Coddling The Aggressor Or Disguising Aggression. Tolerance Is The Virtue That Teaches Us To Live With The Different. It Teaches Us To Learn From And Respect The Different.

True Generosity Consists Precisely In Fighting To Destroy The Causes Which Nourish False Charity. False Charity Constrains The Fearful And Subdued, The "rejects Of Life," To Extend Their Trembling Hands. True Generosity Lies In Striving So That These Hands--whether Of Individuals Or Entire Peoples--need Be Extended Less And Less In Supplication, So That More And More They Become Human Hands Which Work And, Working, Transform The World.