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"Thus the content of education springs from the peasants themselves and their relations with the world, and transforms and broadens itself as the world become revealed to them."

"Education is communication and dialogue. It is not the transference of knowledge, but the encounter of Subjects in dialogue in search of the significance of the object of knowing and thinking." Paulo Freire

"Agrarian reform should be a process of development which will result in the modernization of the rural areas along with the modernization of agriculture. If this is how agrarian reform is seen, the modernization resulting …strictly speaking this would not be a "passage," but rather the superposition of the new on the old." —Paulo Friere

Dialogue cannot imprison itself in any antagonistic relationship. Dialogue is the loving encounter of people, who, mediated by the world, "proclaim" that world. They transform the world and in transforming it, humanize it for all people. This encounter in love cannot be an encounter of irreconcilables.

"Knowledge is not extended from those who consider that they know to those who consider that they do not know. Knowledge is built up in the relation between human beings in the world, relations of transformation, and perfects itself in the critical problematization of these relations."

"I can see validity only in a literacy program in which men understand words in their significance: as a force to transform the world. As illiterate men discover the relativity of ignorance and of wisdom, they destroy one of the myths by which false elites have manipulated them."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."