An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
Your educators can only be your liberators.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.
