True education, Freire insists, has little to do with learning to read “disconnected symbols” or “memorizing” irrelevant simple sentences, like “Ava saw a grape” (English speakers might see this sample sentence in a similar light as “See Dick run”) and should instead educate “learners” (no longer “students”) in the context of their lives and the political ramifications of that context. These are to be interpreted by the “educator” (no longer “teacher”) through a Marxist lens of class antagonism with the goal of awakening class consciousness.
