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It Is Impossible To Talk Of Respect For Students For The Dignity That Is In The Process Of Coming To Be, For The Identities That Are In The Process Of Construction, Without Taking Into Consideration The Conditions In Which They Are Living And The Importance Of The Knowledge Derived From Life Experience, Which They Bring With Them To School. I Can In No Way Underestimate Such Knowledge. Or What Is Worse, Ridicule It.

True Generosity Consists Precisely In Fighting To Destroy The Causes Which Nourish False Charity. False Charity Constrains The Fearful And Subdued, The "rejects Of Life," To Extend Their Trembling Hands. True Generosity Lies In Striving So That These Hands--whether Of Individuals Or Entire Peoples--need Be Extended Less And Less In Supplication, So That More And More They Become Human Hands Which Work And, Working, Transform The World.

Human Existence Cannot Be Silent, Nor Can It Be Nourished By False Words, But Only By True Words, With Which People Transform The World. To Exist, Humanly, Is To Name The World, To Change It. Once Named, The World In Its Turn Reappears To The Namers As A Problem And Requires Of Them A New Naming. People Are Not Built In Silence, But In Word, In Work, In Action-reflection.

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.

A Reader Does Not Suddenly Comprehend What Is Being Read Or Studied, In A Snap, Miraculously. Comprehension Needs To Be Worked Forged, By Those Who Read And Study; As Subjects Of The Action, They Must Seek To Employ Appropriate Instruments In Order To Carry Out The Task. For This Very Reason, Reading And Studying Form A Challenging Task, One Requiring Patience And Perseverance.