when educating someone fails to produce elite success for them, the privileged can claim that it is somehow the fault of the learner, not the teacher, the system, or the allegedly bogus things it considers knowledge. The failed learner can be accused of being lazy, stupid, or otherwise deficient—giving birth to another term common in today’s Freirean education programs, the deficit model, which explains student failures in terms of certain deficits, such as a stable home life or neighborhood condition.
