I would define alienation as being empty and without the common understanding that a typical education is thought to bring. The students are “…alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic…” They do not get a chance to comprehend what they are told, just to remember it in order to reproduce a replica of it later on a test or quiz. They don’t understand, or have a alien feeling when learning, as if they don’t belong.
He uses Praxis in this essay as how the students learn. He says “liberation is a praxis…” telling the reader that liberation is the way they learn and is a way of learning. They use liberation in order to learn about there world and more fully understand what is going on in it.
