No Reality Transforms Itself.

In Order For The Oppressed To Be Able To Wage The Struggle For Their Liberation, They Must Perceive The Reality Of Oppression Not As A Closed World From Which There Is No Exit , But As A Limiting Situation Which They Can Transform.

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.

No One Can Learn Tolerance In A Climate Of Irresponsibility, Which Does Not Produce Democracy. The Act Of Tolerating Requires A Climate In Which Limits May Be Established, In Which There Are Principles To Be Respected. That Is Why Tolerance Is Not Coexistence With The Intolerable. Under An Authoritarian Regime, In Which Authority Is Abused, Or A Permissive One, In Which Freedom Is Not Limited, One Can Hardly Learn Tolerance. Tolerance Requires Respect, Discipline, And Ethics.

If It Is In Speaking Their Word That People, By Naming The World, Transform It, Dialogue Imposes Itself As The Way By Which They Achieve Significance As Human Beings.

This Is The Sense In Which I Am Obliged To Be A Listener. To Listen To The Student's Doubts, Fears, And Incompetencies That Are Part Of The Learning Process. It Is In Listening To The Student That I Learn To Speak With Him Or Her.