It is at this point that I must remind you that Freire’s intention with this unsettling Easter passage is to insist that this Marxist “Easter” is a necessary precondition for any who want to be religious leaders or educators. He then says it is the educator’s role to bring this cult-religious transformation through rebirth to their student “learners.” This is the unambiguous replacement of education with what the Chinese Communists termed “brainwashing.” Thus, it is at this point that I must also remind you that this is written in the book that changed the course of North American colleges of
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