Teaching and religious imagination Book

This is organized as a series of letters written by Freire. As such, there is some repetition between the letters. However, the content is quite good. The thing that most impressed me is that Freire argues against considering teachers as surrogate parents. By viewing teachers as parental figures, it takes away their power to teach students how to exercise political power. For example, if teachers are considered to be parental figures, teachers going on strike are basically abandoning their 'parental' duty, which leads to the public complaining about teachers harming the children by going on strike. However, if teachers are not considered parental figures, then by going on strike they are serving as models of how to exercise political power. As models they can teach students how to exercise their own political power.