Knowledge as Liberation and Resistance

For Sor Juana, knowledge was never abstract—it was a means to resist unjust social structures and claim her own humanity. Applied to children's rights, this concept positions education as fundamentally liberatory. Children who understand history, systems, and themselves gain the capacity to recognize injustice and imagine change. This means children's education should include critical pedagogy: learning how power operates, how marginalization functions, and how to build more just worlds. It means protecting children's access to diverse perspectives, historical truth, and analysis of inequality. Sor Juana demonstrated that authorities restrict knowledge precisely because knowledge enables resistance. By ensuring children have access to comprehensive, honest education that includes the voices of the marginalized and critiques of injustice, we honor both her legacy and children's rights. Knowledge becomes the child's tool for freedom.