Revolutionary leaders must use dialogical education from the start, not after taking power.

Evidence

Problem-posing education does not and cannot serve the interests of the oppressor. No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why? While only a revolutionary society can carry out this education in systematic terms, the revolutionary leaders need not take full power before they can employ the method. In the revolutionary process, the leaders cannot utilize the banking method as an interim measure, justified on grounds of expediency, with the intention of later behaving in a genuinely revolutionary fashion. They must be revolutionary—that is to say, dialogical—from the outset. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 250

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the precise spot where Freire’s own method risks a new vanguard — the leader who already knows the ‘correct’ consciousness. Reader’s contest question lives here.