This paper describes the experience of working with Jacques Ranciere's The ignorant schoolmaster in a continuing education course for adult educators in the State of Rio de Janeiro during the second semester of 2002. The question of the will involved in the act of learning is discussed. It draws from course participants' reactions to the principles of emancipatory education as elaborated by Joseph Jacotot (France, 19th century), which are presented in Ranciere's book.
Will; Equality; Intelligence; Freedom; Drop-outs