You are aimlessly staring at your professor while they give their hour and a half long lecture. At the end of it all you wonder “Well what did I get out of this? I just know what I think I need to know.” Here you have two cases in one example. According to The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire this is a common practice of “the banking concept” in effect. On the other end, according to hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, this is an example of a “passive consumer”. Both authors are criticizing the education system in their pieces, Freire argues against traditional classroom methodology, whereas hooks argues that a rewarding education requires proactive students. In the present day, despite negative results, teachers dictating to students as the authoritative figure and in return students taking,
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She furthers Freire’s topic stating, “Freire’s work affirmed that education can only be liberatory when everyone claims knowledge as a field in which we all labor”(14). Notice in the end where she says “in which we all labor”, “all” meaning teachers and students. Her idea of free education, free thinking being practiced the right way is when everyone is taking part deliberately. Which is why hooks uses the word claim. Claim is a very specific word here and according to Adrienne Rich’s speech “Claiming an Education”, to claim means “to take as the rightful owner; to assert in the face of possible contradiction”(27). So just as it is the teacher 's duty to insure that you are being educated in the best way possible it is just as much the student’s duty to insure that they are taking a stand for the education they deserve. In hooks’ words this is being an “active participant” (14). But what 's the difference between an active participant and a passive consumer? And how does each affect the structure of a
She furthers Freire’s topic stating, “Freire’s work affirmed that education can only be liberatory when everyone claims knowledge as a field in which we all labor”(14). Notice in the end where she says “in which we all labor”, “all” meaning teachers and students. Her idea of free education, free thinking being practiced the right way is when everyone is taking part deliberately. Which is why hooks uses the word claim. Claim is a very specific word here and according to Adrienne Rich’s speech “Claiming an Education”, to claim means “to take as the rightful owner; to assert in the face of possible contradiction”(27). So just as it is the teacher 's duty to insure that you are being educated in the best way possible it is just as much the student’s duty to insure that they are taking a stand for the education they deserve. In hooks’ words this is being an “active participant” (14). But what 's the difference between an active participant and a passive consumer? And how does each affect the structure of a