Adult Literacy Education is a clinic. This implies that we , as educators, hold the power to solve it, which is inaccurate as so much is beyond our control. The Public Schools Metaphor. The Revolutionary Metaphor. Adult Literacy Education is a liberator.
Any education is liberating ,in one way or another.
The Psychotherapy Metaphor. It's a short poem relating the experience of a young boy and his grand father who doesn't speak English as they walk by a phone booth. Nearby, there is a parrot whistling in a cage. The phone rings and the grandfather picks it up, forgetting that he doesn't speak English. Both the boy and the grandfather get stuck in the phone booth, not knowing how the doors function.