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Finn (education, State U. of New York at Buffalo) denies the common claim that the poor are not smart enough or are merely too lazy to excel at literacy. Instead, he argues that the poor have commonly received what he calls domesticating education which leads to productive, docile citizens, while the wealthier students get empowering education, allowing them to maintain their positions of power. He draws on his own experiences as a teacher with a working class background to elucidate some differences among classes in communication styles and assumptions, and discusses methods developed by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for teaching working class students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)