Systematically

These are the children of closed doors. These are the children of poverty, of begging on the street. These are the children of 10-square-foot houses, of tiny neighborhoods surrounded by invisible, impenetrable walls. These are the children of starvation, of day-to-day existence. These are the children of hope, and of hopeless dreams. These are the children of privilege. These are the children of tall apartments with maids, drivers, and cooks. These are the children of neatly pressed school uniforms, of CEO parents, of wrought iron gates protecting gleaming stone walls. These are the children of limitless of opportunity, of soul-crushing pressure, and of high expectations. These are the children who reach for the sky, but already sit in the clouds.

Friere poses education as the path to liberation. He celebrates the sort of education that encourages cognition, and despises the sort that works through transferrals of meaningless information.

But how can we find one education system that can be applied to--and connect--two hopelessly different worlds?

--Thea