Is There Such a Thing as a Perfect Education?
What is truly the definition of a good education? There are a number of combinations of teaching styles and learning styles that work together to provide students with a meaningful learning experience. In Paulo Freire’s essay, “The ‘Banking Concept’ of Education”, he describes two polar opposite teaching styles, the banking, or narrative, style, and the problem-posing style. He provides an argument against the banking idea of education, as problem-posing promotes not only learning from the students, but for the teachers as well. It allows for creativity and free thinking, while the narrative concept is totally teacher-dominated, lecture style classes that crush originality and force memorization …show more content…
On page 9, Freire is quoted, “Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge….Their response to the challenge evokes new challenges, followed by new understandings; and gradually the students come to regard themselves as committed” (Freire, 9). This class was difficult for me. It was my first course considered to be at a “college-level”. Mr. Hanlon gave us intense, thought provoking assignments dealing with the concepts we had learned in the forty-two minute time period. These assignments increased my interest in the material, and with each one I became more involved in the lessons and committed to completing my assignments, as I wanted to continue to learn and push myself to do well in the course. No one is perfect. And no one’s idea of a perfect class is someone else’s idea of an ideal situation. We cannot decide what is the best for ourselves is what is best for everyone around us. Freire gives many examples of how he believes a perfect education should be designed, and its opposite in his essay. However, I do not believe each aspect of his theory. There are parts I do agree with based upon my educational experience. Students should be challenged, and enjoy what they are learning. Students should have the ability to thinking freely and show signs of originality. But, there is nothing wrong with a lecture class. As in introverted individual, those classes I am particularly fond of. I love being able to memorize information, and be able to tell others historical information I would otherwise not
What is truly the definition of a good education? There are a number of combinations of teaching styles and learning styles that work together to provide students with a meaningful learning experience. In Paulo Freire’s essay, “The ‘Banking Concept’ of Education”, he describes two polar opposite teaching styles, the banking, or narrative, style, and the problem-posing style. He provides an argument against the banking idea of education, as problem-posing promotes not only learning from the students, but for the teachers as well. It allows for creativity and free thinking, while the narrative concept is totally teacher-dominated, lecture style classes that crush originality and force memorization …show more content…
On page 9, Freire is quoted, “Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge….Their response to the challenge evokes new challenges, followed by new understandings; and gradually the students come to regard themselves as committed” (Freire, 9). This class was difficult for me. It was my first course considered to be at a “college-level”. Mr. Hanlon gave us intense, thought provoking assignments dealing with the concepts we had learned in the forty-two minute time period. These assignments increased my interest in the material, and with each one I became more involved in the lessons and committed to completing my assignments, as I wanted to continue to learn and push myself to do well in the course. No one is perfect. And no one’s idea of a perfect class is someone else’s idea of an ideal situation. We cannot decide what is the best for ourselves is what is best for everyone around us. Freire gives many examples of how he believes a perfect education should be designed, and its opposite in his essay. However, I do not believe each aspect of his theory. There are parts I do agree with based upon my educational experience. Students should be challenged, and enjoy what they are learning. Students should have the ability to thinking freely and show signs of originality. But, there is nothing wrong with a lecture class. As in introverted individual, those classes I am particularly fond of. I love being able to memorize information, and be able to tell others historical information I would otherwise not