ellent idea, however, if teachers simply talk to the students and ignore any feedback they might have, students are going to be unprepared when the time comes for them to manipulate that information. However, if teachers would lean more towards Freire's model of an equal interaction between student and teacher, students would be more likely to have already had the opportunity to apply the information they've received and give it back to the teacher in their own words, helping them to understand it better.Freire also places an emphasis on helping those who have been oppressed since he believes their education has been most ignored. He talks of how those who are poor, or plagued by oppression, should unite, since unity will help them achieve a sense of empowerment faster than their individual voices. Standing alone and trying to forge a new path towards enlightenment, one they've been denied for so long, would most likely only cause them more harm than good. It is only with the force of a group that they will achieve their goals, be noticed, and in turn benefit from the new found awareness society will have.Freire realizes that his ideas are not understood by everyone when he says, "Workers also understand my work, as well as those who have some experience of oppression. But I acknowledge there might be a problem of cross-cultural translation with U.S. readers." He sees that those people in the United States that are above any oppression due to their social standing, find it hard to believe that there are people in this world who want an education but have been deprived of one. Instead, we as a society tend to perceive that those lacking in education must have given up the opportunity on their own and that any oppression they experience because of it is a direct result of their own foolish actions. Although Freire's theories on education are the cause of some confrontation between educators, he believes that his work makes the most...
