"The long and winding road..."

• Page 78, Paragraph 2
  Teachers must be vocal with students and talk in a level that students could understand. For example, when a student asks something, the teacher should be able to communicate his answer in an understandable manner.
  
  “They must be revolutionary—that is to say, dialogical—from the outset.”


• Page 78, Paragraph 1
  This underlines the main theme of the essay—teachers can’t be higher than students, they can’t stand above a pedestal for the students to try to reach for them. Instead, teachers should help students develop into their own skins and be their own person because in order to become a critical thinker, a student must be able to think for herself/himself and develop her/his own ideas.
  
  “Problem-posing education, as a humanist and liberating praxis, posits as fundamental that men subjected to domination must fight for their emancipation.”


• Page 76, Paragraph 2
  Instead of fluffing up reality and making it more tolerable to students, teachers should just present reality the way it is, the way events are actually happening.
  
  “Banking education attempts, by mythicizing this is not an actual word reality, to conceal certain facts which explain the way men exist in the world; problem-posing education sets itself the task of demythologizing.”


• Page 76, Paragraph 2
  Problem-posing teachers help students think for themselves. Teachers should let students have opinions of their own about what is currently happening right, not just beyond what the teacher thinks and what he believes in, in order for the students to develop wisdom and be more in touch with reality
  
  “Problem-posing education bases itself on creativity and stimulates true reflection and action upon reality, thereby responding to the vocation of men as beings who are authentic…”


• Page 76, Paragraph 3
  Teachers must accept that students are still growing, that they’re still developing. At the same time, students must acknowledge the fact that they don’t know everything that there is to know yet. By accepting this, then students could learn to start on knowing as much as they know and understanding as much as they can; in short, they can improve.
  
  “Problem-solving education affirms men as beings in the process of becoming.”


• Page 74, Paragraph 4
  To become a critical thinker, a student must be able to explain what he thinks to the teacher and to prove his point without feeling as if his opinion isn’t worth that much to the teacher.
  
  
  “The teacher presents the material to the students for their consideration, and reconsiders his earlier considerations as the students express their own.


• Page 73, Paragraph 5
  To be a critical thinker, one must be given the chance to think. One must be allowed to have opinions of their own, to think their own thoughts and to believe their own beliefs
  
  “Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of men as conscious beings, and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world."


• Page 71, Paragraph 3
  Like the one above, the teacher must be an entertaining person, someone who can relate to the student. If there is no connection, there will be no interest
  
  “From the outset, his efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for humanization…he must be a partner of the students in his relations with them.”


• Page 69, Paragraph 5
  There are always new things to learn and a teacher does not stop learning once he becomes a teacher. Hand in hand, it doesn’t mean that the student doesn’t know facts that the teacher doesn’t know.
  
  “Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”
  Page 74, Paragraph 2
  “the teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the student…”


• Page 69, Paragraph 3
  It’s ok to ask a teacher when a student needs clarification. That’s how learning starts: by inquiring about something that’s out of your head and then being able to comprehend it and grasp it and store in your mind when the question is answered for you
  
  “Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world and with each other.”