Language Is Never Neutral

Problem-posing Education Affirms Men And Women As Beings In The Process Of Becoming.

The Greatest Humanistic And Historical Task Of The Oppressed: To Liberate Themselves.

The Parent-child Relationship In The Home Usually Reflects The Objective Cultural Conditions Of The Surrounding Social Structure. If The Conditions Which Penetrate The Home Are Authoritarian, Rigid, And Dominating, The Home Will Increase The Climate Of Oppression. As These Authoritarian Relations Between Parents And Children Intensify, Children In Their Infancy Increasingly Internalize The Paternal Authority.

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.

Indeed, Some "revolutionaries" Brand As "innocents," "dreamers," Or Even "reactionaries"; Those Who Would Challenge This Educational Practice. But One Does Not Liberate People By Alienating Them. Authentic Liberation - The Process Of Humanization - Is Not Another Deposit To Be Made In Men.