When I use the word sub-literate, it is mostly as a description of a state of mediocrity. “Genuine Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system & bring about some conformity...
...or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” (Read Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the Oppressed) and get this understanding.
Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means deployed is irrelevant. To relegate, alienate, ostracize & marginalize humans/citizens of a republic from expressing themselves is to make objects of them.
