Moralizing education fails where conscientização succeeds with oppressed people

Evidence

In contrast, imagine the failure of a moralistic educator, sermonizing against alcoholism and presenting as an example of virtue something which for these men is not a manifestation of virtue. In this and in other cases, the only sound procedure is the conscientização of the situation, which should be attempted from the start of the thematic investigation. (Obviously, conscientização does not stop at the level of mere subjective perception of a situation, but through action prepares men for the struggle against the obstacles to their humanization.) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 345

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crucial parenthetical defining conscientização as perception PLUS action, not reflection alone.
• XREF: Ties to the reader’s concern that his method risks a new vanguard; the action clause is the guardrail. — connects to: Education is never neutral and either suppresses or liberates communities — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 332