esents war of movement that seeks revolutionary opposition to oppression, appropriate where civil society is les s developed. The advan ce of a war of position in worlds with a strong civil society, requires an extended battle on the terrain of bourgeois hegemony, and for that one needs the weapons of classical education. The struggle for mon school, therefor e, is part of such a war of position . I twould be the crucible of anic intellectuals of the future –intellectuals who would not only elaborate the good sense of the working class but contest the bourgeois ideologies that they had imbibed at school. Conclusion Bourdieu and Passeron make every effort to debunk any notion that the school can be a vehicle of social transformation. Their critique of Freire would focus on his