Empowering Power

I am reading an important book on critical pedagogy, When Students Have Power  by Ira Shor, and one line early on in the work resonates so strongly with me.  When Shor refers to democratizing the power structures inherent in the traditional classroom, he proclaims:

"The power that uses power to share and transform power is the power that I am seeking."

This is the classroom activism that I embrace, a politicized pedagogy of equality and liberated knowledge.