The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people—not to win them over. - Paulo Freire

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in school, where students soon discover that (as in the home) in order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have been set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.