To Teach Is Part Of The Very

This Is The Sense In Which I Am Obliged To Be A Listener. To Listen To The Student's Doubts, Fears, And Incompetencies That Are Part Of The Learning Process. It Is In Listening To The Student That I Learn To Speak With Him Or Her.

The World Is Split Between Those Who Do Not Sleep Because They Are Hungry And Those Who Do Not Sleep Because They Are Afraid Of Those Who Are Hungry.

No One Can Learn Tolerance In A Climate Of Irresponsibility, Which Does Not Produce Democracy. The Act Of Tolerating Requires A Climate In Which Limits May Be Established, In Which There Are Principles To Be Respected. That Is Why Tolerance Is Not Coexistence With The Intolerable. Under An Authoritarian Regime, In Which Authority Is Abused, Or A Permissive One, In Which Freedom Is Not Limited, One Can Hardly Learn Tolerance. Tolerance Requires Respect, Discipline, And Ethics.

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.

Those Truly Committed To Liberation Must Reject The Banking Concept In Its Entirety, Adopting Instead A Concept Of Women And Men As Conscious Beings And Consciousness As Consciousness Intent Upon The World.