Hey Michael, great to hear from you! I think Paulo Freire’s work and critical pedagogy indeed strive for that. It’s easier when teaching adults who truly are peers, or even undergraduate students who are close enough to being peers… Much harder with children because of the need to sometimes exert benign authority for their well-being (would be irresponsible to assume they’ll figure it all out on their own). The ideal is good to strive for, but an extremely difficult and complicated process!