Therefore, another (better) option to improve upon the system is to change the course load at the collegiate level. Every college has general education requirements that they must complete in order to graduate from that specific institution. On top of these general education requirements, students must also take the courses needed to fulfill their major requirements. Between the two, it makes the workload for pre-medical students dauntingly difficult. I found a perfect example of this in Paulo Freire’s “Banking Concept of Education.” Paulo Freire was a writer and former teacher who has dubbed much of the worlds current academic systems as a “banking” concept of education. The college educational system in America falls under this style of educating. Freire describes, in his essay, how the “banking” concept of education form of education is primarily about “recording and memorizing” (216). Freire describes how harmful this is to the learning process of young students, yet pre-medical students are subjected to this in science classes semester after semester in their long academic
Therefore, another (better) option to improve upon the system is to change the course load at the collegiate level. Every college has general education requirements that they must complete in order to graduate from that specific institution. On top of these general education requirements, students must also take the courses needed to fulfill their major requirements. Between the two, it makes the workload for pre-medical students dauntingly difficult. I found a perfect example of this in Paulo Freire’s “Banking Concept of Education.” Paulo Freire was a writer and former teacher who has dubbed much of the worlds current academic systems as a “banking” concept of education. The college educational system in America falls under this style of educating. Freire describes, in his essay, how the “banking” concept of education form of education is primarily about “recording and memorizing” (216). Freire describes how harmful this is to the learning process of young students, yet pre-medical students are subjected to this in science classes semester after semester in their long academic