The aim of this text is to provide a reading of some aspects of Paulo Freire’s life and work, building on a tradition with two pillars of the same name: the Socrates in Athens, which opens a way of understanding and practising philosophy as an educational life (or education as a philosophical life); and the Socrates de Caracas, Simón Rodríguez, who introduces unique notes to this heroic philosophical ethics, in particular the idea of testing, life as an experience that is not known but open to the meeting; test also to invent and not imitate dominant knowledge and power modes. Paulo Freire is presented here, on the basis of a reading of some aspects of his life and of the Pedagogy of oprimide and the Pedagogy of Autonomy, such as a Latin American and popular Socrates. Finally, some issues are proposed for problematic dialogue with their life and work, a world of thinking between philosophy, education and politics.