What's the difference between a savior and an ally

Education has had a savior-like identity for a long time and it's time we asked how that's working out for us, all of us. It might be time for us to think about what it means to be an ally and not a savior. Allies think about privilege; saviors think about helping, in a downward direction (check out Paulo Freire's points about false generosity).

Part of doing the work is interrogating privilege, and we've all got it, in different forms and shapes. But what does that mean - interrogating? It means, in a nutshell, that we have to be thinking constantly about how our social position of privilege might fool us into thinking that we can speak for others and how we might be taking up more space than we should. Here is a great video that breaks this down and here is an on point essay that calls out Talib Kweli for failing that ally test this week.

These should help to illuminate the very big difference between being a savior and an ally. What do you think - is this a helpful trope/concept to transform our very nice profession from reproducers of inequity to more true meanings of teachers?