The Politics of Education: Culture Power and Liberation

point of view, or unsympathetically, by assuming the peasant is a mere tool of production or a diseased one in need of the social worker's medicine.In his refusal to address his readers as different and yet sincerely committed peers, and thus to actually engage them in conversation, Freire affirms that very stratified discourse from which he seeks to lead us away.His own principles, commit ment, a respect for education, however, do appear even if they are inadequately practiced here; it is in this spirit that this volume can remind and reinvogorate his community of fellow educators. References