Students need to be able to form their own opinions about subjects. The teacher should not force their own opinions on them because then the student will never form their own.
"The teacher cannot think for his students, nor can he impose his thought on them."
Communication is a vital learning tool. Both inside and outside classrooms should be filled with verbal and non-verbal communication to insure the progess of learning for the students. It is how we learn and grow as humans.
"Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning."
When a student asks a question, the teacher should be able to answer this question with a knowledge that will help teach the child even further. Questioning the world around us is what helps us as a civilization and as a person grow. Questions can be worded and reworded infinite times but the answer is truly the key.
"Knowledge from inquiry, apart from invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."
The line between student and teacher can sometimes blur. Teachers can now learn through the conversations they have with their students as well as from their questions. It shows that just because they are teachers does not mean they know everything. They can be students as well who are just as eager to learn.
"The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach."
Teachers must not narrate to their students the concepts of right and wrong. Let the students learn what they believe is right. They have to form their own opinion.
"Education is suffering from narration sickness."
Teachers need to be able to keep the attention of their students. They need to let thier students experience some form of reality. Students need to realize that there is a larger world out there that has endless possibilities.
"The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable."
Students need to realize that they still have much to learn. Once they accept this they will be able to learn even more and grow with that learning. They will never be able to actually stop learning thus creating an unfinished reality.
"Problem-posing education affirms men as beings in the process of becoming- as unfinished, uncompleted beings in and with a likewise unfinished reality."
Education is always changing. New things appear everyday that make us reevaluate what we have learned. Students textbooks are reprinted every so often to make room for new information or to revise the old. It's a never ending process.
"Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis."
When teachers teach students information the students must be able to take in this information and store it away for later use. They have to be able to grasp the concepts thouroghly. If not, they are simply just copying and transferring information that they have learned with out ever really learning it.
"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals or information."
Students have the right to be able to study and learn whatever they please. It is a birthright, a freedom, that we have access to such an infinite amount of information at our fingertips.
"Education as the practice of freedom..."
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