When we learn to write, we not only copy letters or syllables, but we express ideas and looks, everyday experiences and peculiar ways of saying. Literacy does not mean repeating words, but being able to say your own. Freire's theory places subjects in a position to critically rethink the words of their universe in order to discover and conquer themselves and, thus, lucidly assume their human condition. This transformative learning is the path that Pedagogy of the Oppressed travels.

While the education that Freire questions nullifies the creative power of girls and boys, and thus satisfies the interests of a society governed by the practice of domination, his liberating pedagogy proposes that students and teachers begin together, as oppressed, the historical task of liberating themselves by appropriating the world around them.

Undoubtedly, the most representative work of Paulo Freire and the most influential in the pedagogical and social thought of the twentieth century, the literacy method that inaugurates Pedagogy of the Oppressed remains indispensable to reflect on educational practice also in the twenty-first century.