The process of emancipation is where an individual becomes independent from a structure, group, or other individuals and able to engage in self-determination. For a few centuries, it was supposed that education can be one of the best methods to develop emancipation. But education as it has been practiced implies that the teacher will have more information than the student, thus inadvertently reproducing dependent and unequal relationships. Jacques Ranciere has proposed that a new form of education and emancipation must begin with an initial assumption of equality, and that any method must verify that equality rather than make unequal individuals equal. Starting with equality can insure that no new dependent relationships are formed, and that new subjective identities can arise.