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When Guinea Bissau on the West African coast declared independence in 1973 the rate of illiteracy in its adult population was ninety percent. The new government faced the enormous task of educating its citizens. With Freire as collaborator and advisor the government launched a huge grass-roots literacy campaign and this audiobook is Freire’s memoir of that campaign.

This is not a manual. It’s a quiet act of rebellion. Letters to a Young Teacher is a poetic and piercing exchange between two educators — a seasoned guide and a young teacher navigating burnout, grief, and the quiet longing to feel again. What begins as an honest back-and-forth becomes a reckoning with perfectionism, a gentle rebellion against performative strength, and a soft return to joy. These letters don’t preach. They breathe. They carry tools that don’t demand, stories that regulate the body, and language that grants permission — to rest, to feel again, to reclaim wonder.

A (former) student at UNT Dallas College of Law, Anthony Remis does not hesitate to speak his mind. This book contains thirteen letters he sent and published to offices of leadership across the country and the world, plus one additional addressed to you. History has its eyes on all of us. Never forget, never again.