Revolution ought to reclaim even freedom-afraid professionals as more misguided than culpable

Evidence

Professional women and men of any specialty, university graduates or not, are individuals who have been “determined from above” by a culture of domination which has constituted them as dual beings. (If they had come from the lower classes this miseducation would be the same, if not worse.) These professionals, however, are necessary to the reorganization of the new society. And since many among them—even though “afraid of freedom” and reluctant to engage in humanizing action—are in truth more misguided than anything else, they not only could be, but ought to be, reclaimed by the revolution. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 501

Categorization

• XREF: This rehabilitation of the ‘misguided rather than evil’ professional connects to the reader’s contest that Freire’s method may breed a new facilitator-vanguard — Freire himself here refuses to write the educated professional off.