To Speak A True Word Is To

Education Is Suffering From Narration Sickness.

Education As The Practice Of Freedom--as Opposed To Education As The Practice Of Domination--denies That Man Is Abstract, Isolated, Independent And Unattached To The World; It Also Denies That The World Exists As Reality Apart From People. Authentic Reflection Considers Neither Abstract Man Nor The World Without People, But People In Their Relations With The World. In These Relations Consciousness And World Are Simultaneous: Consciousness Neither Precedes The World Nor Follows It.

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.

Finally, It Is Important To Make It Clear That Imagination Is Not An Exercise For Those Detached From Reality, Those Who Live In The Air. On The Contrary, When We Imagine Something, We Do It Necessarily Conditioned By A Lack In Our Concrete Reality. When Children Imagine Free And Happy Schools, It Is Because Their Real Schools Deny Them Freedom And Happiness.

The Road To Revolution Involves Openness To The People, Not Imperviousness To Them; It Involves Communion With The People, Not Mistrust.