Education As The Exercise Of Domination Stimulates

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.

It Is Not Suprising That The Banking Concept Of Education Regards Men As Adaptable, Manageable Beings.

Libertarian Action Must Recognize This Dependence As A Weak Point And Must Attempt Through Reflection And Action To Transform It Into Independence. However, Not Even The Best-intentioned Leadership Can Bestow Independence As A Gift. The Liberation Of The Oppressed Is A Liberation Of Women And Men, Not Things. Accordingly, While No One Liberates Himself By His Own Efforts Alone, Neither Is He Liberated By Others. Liberation, A Human Phenomenon, Cannot Be Achieved By Semihumans. Any Attempt To Treat People As Semihumans Only Dehumanizes Them.

It Is Only The Oppressed Who, By Freeing Themselves, Can Free Their Oppressors.

It Is Absolutely Essential That The Oppressed Participate In The Revolutionary Process With An Increasingly Critical Awareness Of Their Role As Subjects Of The Transformation.