sense. People learn better when they are feeling as if they are getting a sense of empowerment from the lesson, and that they aren't being looked down upon. Freire found the best way to address this was to write his books for those that are highly educated, since they are the ones that hold the key to decide whether the minds of the oppressed will remain locked forever. He even says, "I did not write for the peasants but for those who can work with them. If a graduate student in education cannot read my books, then you cannot understand Sartre, Hegel, and not even Dewey. And your universities have to start all over again!" This simply implies that they ball is now in our court and if we continue to ignore the problem, those in need of education will be oppressed forever. Perhaps as a society we don't understand what benefits we will achieve by educating those who have been "lost in the shuffle" so to speak. Since I am guessing that this number of oppressed is not a small margin, it is safe to say that our entire society would benefit by their being educated. Not only would their being educated benefit the economy, for obvious reasons such as more job opportunities and less unemployment, there is the chance that crime rates would drop. Since most crimes are committed by the impoverished or uneducated, if we were able to give these people substance and hope in their lives, they might be more likely to stray from crime and follow a straighter path. Freire also is sure to include that a large number of his theories are developed from personal experience, that nothing he points out is simply another version of something you'd find in every education textbook. As he writes, "To understand my books you have to have experience with the people--not just with books! What I describe I did." This is a very noteworthy aspect of his style of education to entertain. If someone were to emerge from their years of education only to find that any...
