Your story was really fascinating. I'm glad you found a good teacher. We all deserve one.

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive
critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they
come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.” (Freire 83)

Banger quote. I think my copy is riddled with highlighted passages like this.

I wonder if @cryotosensei is familiar with the work of Freire.