The Oppressed Find In The Oppressors Their

In The Banking Concept Of Education, Knowledge Is A Gift Bestowed By Those Who Consider Themselves Knowledgeable Upon Those Whom They Consider To Know Nothing... The Teacher Presents Himself To His Students As Their Necessary Opposite; By Considering Their Ignorance Absolute, He Justifies His Own Existence.

It's No Sin To Make A Critical Study Of Brazil's Reality. A Small Percentage Own Land. Most People Don't.

It Is Not Possible To Remake This Country, To Democratize It, Humanize It, Make It Serious, As Long As We Have Teenagers Killing People For Play And Offending Life, Destroying The Dream, And Making Love Unviable. If Education Alone Cannot Transform Society, Without It Society Cannot Change Either.

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.

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.