Paulo Freire | serpentinegalleries.org (Editor’s note: The year 2021 marks the centennial of radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997), whose theories about literacy revolutionized the globe. We anticipate further commentary on Freire as the year continues.) When Guiomar Albuquerque was 13 years old, she began to teach fishermen in the Ilha do Maruim (Mosquito Island) favela of Olinda how to read and write. A top student in the seventh grade of the local parochial school, Guiomar already understood that literacy is a passport, not a birthright. It was 1984. She had watched her f...