We as human beings have an unbelievable power to use our brain to comprehend the world around us. But this is all lost when we are just mindlessly obeying with a so called leader. Along with our society it seems there has to be a person in charge. All this comes to play in the idea of the banking concept; losing all the students’ abilities to critically think, affecting them in the long run. Paulo Freire in ‘The Banking Concept of Education’ he claims that “Narration leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated account. Worse yet, it turns them into “containers,” into “receptacles” to be “filled” by the teachers”(1). Freire also addresses the idea of problem-posing education which uses the critical thinking skills that we have,
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Except in those classes that I enjoyed, I felt Freire 's ideas of problem-posing education fully in effect. Freire describes problem-posing education or liberation education as “Education [that] bases itself on creativity and stimulates true reflection and actions upon reality[...]to engage in inquiry and creative transformation”(Freire 5). I realized this is the total opposite of banking concepts but more important it was the opposite that I was taught in middle school. One of my experiences that I could clearly see showed ‘Problem-Posing Education’ was taking the course engineering. This was like nothing I have taken before, it’s a student-run class where the teacher would just interrupt lightly for upcoming things, events, and, course guidelines but beyond that the students that previously took the class would help around classroom to any student in need to just reach the answer in their own way by hints. This created a very supportive atmosphere that showed all the students anything is possible if you really think about it. But after taking this class I realize it doesn’t follow one huge point of Freire’s guidelines in the banking concept; “Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught[...] education is owned by the teacher”(Freire 4). This just shows how detrimental education is that is only taught by the teachers and a class without …show more content…
I am not fully against the banking concept but in my experiences it has seen to do more worse than good except for structure. The banking concept is great in elementary school this is a time where you 're just learning the basics and filling up on all the knowledge given to you. The banking concept gives defined rules, but it 's where we want to start to branch off that banking concept education restricts us. In middle school, we may find things we want to do and in high school you should find something you enjoy but having the banking concept just restricts us from fully learning and expanding out. All our lives that we spend in school are just preparing us for college but when will the preparing stop, when will we transition from our basic structure and move out to purpose-problem education to expand on ideas and help us become the people we want to become not just the people our system wants us to be; good passive people that follow
Except in those classes that I enjoyed, I felt Freire 's ideas of problem-posing education fully in effect. Freire describes problem-posing education or liberation education as “Education [that] bases itself on creativity and stimulates true reflection and actions upon reality[...]to engage in inquiry and creative transformation”(Freire 5). I realized this is the total opposite of banking concepts but more important it was the opposite that I was taught in middle school. One of my experiences that I could clearly see showed ‘Problem-Posing Education’ was taking the course engineering. This was like nothing I have taken before, it’s a student-run class where the teacher would just interrupt lightly for upcoming things, events, and, course guidelines but beyond that the students that previously took the class would help around classroom to any student in need to just reach the answer in their own way by hints. This created a very supportive atmosphere that showed all the students anything is possible if you really think about it. But after taking this class I realize it doesn’t follow one huge point of Freire’s guidelines in the banking concept; “Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught[...] education is owned by the teacher”(Freire 4). This just shows how detrimental education is that is only taught by the teachers and a class without …show more content…
I am not fully against the banking concept but in my experiences it has seen to do more worse than good except for structure. The banking concept is great in elementary school this is a time where you 're just learning the basics and filling up on all the knowledge given to you. The banking concept gives defined rules, but it 's where we want to start to branch off that banking concept education restricts us. In middle school, we may find things we want to do and in high school you should find something you enjoy but having the banking concept just restricts us from fully learning and expanding out. All our lives that we spend in school are just preparing us for college but when will the preparing stop, when will we transition from our basic structure and move out to purpose-problem education to expand on ideas and help us become the people we want to become not just the people our system wants us to be; good passive people that follow