Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter." - Paulo Freire

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. They must abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world.

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo.