The following chapter takes its cue from Milani's effort to equip individuals with the ability to question critically the authoritarian forces that turn the world into a more "oppressive, cynical and dangerous"¹ place to live in. Though the Church and the state did not endorse Milani's notion that one should resist subordination, Milani, himself a priest in exile at Barbiana, continued to insist on the notion that education remains significant if it keeps provoking individuals to live an authentic life.