Education as the practice of freedom—as opposed to education as the practice of domination—denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent, and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as a reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but peo-ple in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.
