This collection of writings from the period of 1970 to 1990 by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) provides insight into the foundations and principles of his educational work based on the pedagogy of liberation. The selected texts address not only pedagogical issues and content-methodological questions of educational work but also include analyses and evaluations of politics, culture, religion, ethics, and possibilities for societal change – an expansion that challenges the notion of treating pedagogy as separate from society and politics. Freire has astutely analyzed the devastating effects of neoliberalism on individuals and society, encouraging resistant thinking and action. A selection of representative old and new texts by Paulo Freire: those who take it in hand will quickly discover.