Tammy’s Reviews > The Politics of Education: Culture, Power and Liberation > Status Update

“There can be no conscientiization without denunciation of unstructured, a thing that cannot be expected of the right. Nor can there be a popular conscientization for domination. The rights invents new forms of cultural action only for domination.“

“Only Praxis in the context of communion makes ‘conscientization’ a viable project. Concentration is a joint project and that it takes place in a man among other men, men, united by their action and by the reflection upon the action and upon the world. Thus men together achieve the state of perceptive clarity that Goldman calls ‘the maximum of potential consciousness beyond real consciousness’.“

‘He dreamt of a new man being born in the experience of liberation. In this sense, Guevara incarnated the authentic revolutionary utopia. He was one of the great prophets of the silent ones of the Third World. Conversant with many of them, he spoke on behalf of all of them.“

“In the same spirit of communion, Rivera‘s gorilla encampment served as a theoretical context in which he and his companions together analyze the concrete events. They were living through and playing their strategy of their action… He justified gorilla warfare as an introduction to freedom, as a call to life to those who are the living dead.“

“Che Guevara is an example of the unceasing witness revolutionary leadership gives to dialogue with the people… That anyone who wants to become a true revolutionary must be in communion with the people.“

“… the literary process must relate to speaking the word to transforming reality, & man’s role in this transformation. Perceiving the significance of the relationship is indispensable for those learning to read & write if we are really committed to liberation.”

“If learning to read and write is to constitute an act of knowing, the learners must assume from the beginning the role of the creative subjects. It is not a matter of memorizing and repeating, given syllables, words, and phrases, but rather of reflecting critically on the process of reading and writing itself, and on the profound significance of language.“