Without A Sense Of Identity, There Can

Although The Teachers Or The Students Are Not The Same, The Person In Charge Of Education Is Being Formed Or Re-formed As He/she Teaches, And The Person Who Is Being Taught Forms Him/herself In The Process. ...there Is, In Fact, No Teaching Without Learning.

No Pedagogy Which Is Truly Liberating Can Remain Distant From The Oppressed By Treating Them As Unfortunates And By Presenting For Their Emulation Models From Among The Oppressors. The Oppressed Must Be Their Own Example In The Struggle For Their Redemption (freire, 1970, P. 54).

The Role Of The Educator Is One Of Tranquil Possession Of Certitude In Regard To The Teaching Of Not Only Contents But Also Of 'correct Thinking.'

The Behavior Of The Oppressed Is A Prescribed Behavior, Following As It Does The Guidelines Of The Oppressor.

An Unauthentic Word, One Which Is Unable To Transform Reality, Results When Dichotomy Is Imposed Upon Its Constitutive Elements. When A Word Is Deprived Of Its Dimension Of Action, Reflection Automatically Suffers As Well; And The Word Is Changed Into Idle Chatter, Into Verbalism, Into An Alienated And Alienating “blah.” It Becomes An Empty Word, One Which Cannot Denounce The World, For Denunciation Is Impossible Without A Commitment To Transform, And There Is No Transformation Without Action.