There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes: "the practice of freedom", the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

    by Richard Shaull     in 1970, foreword to Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed