The Educator Has The Duty Of Not

The More Students Work At Storing The Deposits Entrusted To Them, The Less They Develop The Critical Consciousness Which Would Result From Their Intervention In The World As Transformers Of That World. The More Completely They Accept The Passive Role Impressed On Them, The More They Tend Simply To Adapt To The World As It Is And To The Fragmented View Of Reality Deposited In Them.

To Simply Think About The People, As The Dominators Do, Without Any Self-giving In That Thought, To Fail To Think With The People, Is A Sure Way To Cease Being Revolutionary Leaders.

Implicit In The Banking Concept Is The Assumption Of A Dichotomy Between Human Beings And The World: A Person Is Merely In The World, Not With The World Or With Others; The Individual Is Spectator, Not Re-creator.

... There Are Moments In Which The Teacher, As The Authority Talks To The Learners, Says What Must Be Done, Establishes Limits Without Which The Very Freedom Of Learners Is Lost In Lawlessness, But These Moments, In Accordance With The Political Options Of The Educator, Are Alternated With Others In Which The Educator Speaks With The Learner.

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.