Paolo Freire

I've just been reading Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It's a brilliant read that intuitively feels right, but apart from having trouble seeing teachers apply that theory, I don't even honestly think university-age students who've been told what to do all their lives can deal with breaking out.
Maybe the aim isn't to "free" them so much as to teach them English in a way that resonates with them, at least to the extent that they look on English class with enough fondness that they might consider contnuing to learn on their own.