Faith in people must be a priori yet critically aware of alienation

Evidence

Dialogue further requires an intense faith in humankind, faith in their power to make and remake, to create and re-create, faith in their vocation to be more fully human (which is not the privilege of an elite, but the birthright of all). Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue; the “dialogical man” believes in others even before he meets them face to face. His faith, however, is not naïve. The “dialogical man” is critical and knows that although it is within the power of humans to create and transform, in a concrete situation of alienation individuals may be impaired in the use of that power. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 265

Categorization

• XREF: A ‘critical faith’ that believes in capacity while acknowledging impairment parallels how the reader must trust learners without naïve romanticism.