We Make the Road by Walking - Ideas

Victoria Escalada
Ms. Julia van der Ryn
CLQ2142.1
9 November 2011

1. "[The charismatic leader] discovers that in order to save the people, it is necessary that he also saves himself...the leader has to understand that he's been shaped by the mass of the people also and is not only shaping the people." (111-112)
   
2. "I'd say if you were working with an organization and there's a choice between the goal of that organization, or the particular program they're working on, and educating people, developing people, helping them grow, helping them become able to analyze--if there's a choice, we'd sacrifice the goal of the organization for helping the people grow, because we think in the long run it's a bigger contribution." (116)
   
3. "Education is before, is during, and is after. It's a process, a permanent process. It has to do with human existence and curiosity." (119)
4. "It's impossible to organize without educating and being educated by the very process of organizing...Those who are engaged in mobilizing and organizing have to evaluate this process. In the process of evaluation, undoubtedly, there is an interpretive and necessary moment in which the leaders who are trying to mobilize and organize have to know better what they are doing. The organizers engage in critical reflection on what they did. In doing that the leaders start participating in a process in the next stage of mobilization and organization, because they change." (121)
5. "Organizers who hope to educate must increase their historical and cultural sensitivity." (124)
   
6. "My expertise is in knowing not to be an expert." (128)