The Educator Has The Duty

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.

... Teaching Cannot Be A Process Of Transference Of Knowledge From The One Teaching To The Learner. This Is The Mechanical Transference From Which Results Machinelike Memorization, Which I Have Already Criticized. Critical Study Correlates With Teaching That Is Equally Critical, Which Necessarily Demands A Critical Way Of Comprehending And Of Realizing The Reading Of The Word And That Of The World, The Reading Of Text And Of Context.

In The Banking Concept Of Education, Knowledge Is A Gift Bestowed By Those Who Consider Themselves Knowledgeable Upon Those Whom They Consider To Know Nothing... The Teacher Presents Himself To His Students As Their Necessary Opposite; By Considering Their Ignorance Absolute, He Justifies His Own Existence.

To Affirm That Men And Women Are Persons And As Persons Should Be Free, And Yet To Do Nothing Tangible To Make This Affirmation A Reality, Is A Farce.

Education As The Exercise Of Domination Stimulates The Credulity Of Students, With The Ideological Intent (often Not Perceived By Educators) Of Indoctrinating Them To Adapt To The World Of Oppression.