In Empowering Education, Ira Shor states that child are called upon to receive from outside the already perfected products of adult knowledge and morality; the educational relationship consists of pressure on one side and receptiveness on the other. 

The meaning behind this is that when we attend school we learn certain concepts because we are forced to learn them. 

What this means to say is that when we attend school we are forced to learn certain concepts because we simply can learn things and because its there.  Ira Shor thinks that what children perform in school is memorizing and note taking based, cut and dry. Teaching the idea of "you have to learn this because i said so." Shor  attempts to show the beauty of teaching with more autonomy or independence. To teach in a more fun and creative way will cause children to be interested to learn. We are human so come into the world as learners and we are naturally curious from day one. Why should education be taught in a way that we just learn but not ask why. The reason we learn is because we ask the questions how and why. 

I can connect this to the the three R’s article, because they both state that good methods for students are that they should be able to learn, think and question for themselves instead of being told how to learn and what to think. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/233

IMPORTANT QUOTES TO THINK ABOUT;

"People are naturally curious. They are born learners. Education can either develop or stifle their inclination to ask why and to learn"

"Empowered students make meaning and act from refelction, instead of memorizing facts and values handed to them"

"Empowered education, as I define it here, is a critical-democratic pedagogy for self and social change. It is a student-centered program for multicultural democracy in school and society. It approaches individual growth as an active, cooperative, and social process, because the self and society create each other"