Paulo Feireire's Problem-Posing Essay

Paulo Freire’s insistence on using the problem-posing model for education rather than the “banking” concept in education is neither naïve nor unrealistic, because the problem-posing model emphasizes an “alternative way of being” (Halberstam 292) as Judith Halberstam explains in her essay. Freire introduces the problem-posing concept in his essay focusing on education. The banking concept is what most teachers and professors use in our society now. . “Education thus becomes an act of depositing in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor” (Freire) The teacher “deposits” information into the students brain and the students takes all the information in and when it is time for a test or quiz the teacher “withdraws” the information that he or she deposited and the student must spit out the information verbally or on paper the exact way it was taught to them. The educational system takes the ability to think for ourselves and forces us as students to accept information the way it is given to …show more content…
Our education system is set up where students are tested on information on the book which they expect them to know through one or two lectures and little or no activities. But we as a society should try and change that because there are students in the eleventh grade that probably has an IQ of a genius but has horrible memory so they cannot retain the information the teacher taught two or three weeks ago, but in the same class there are students with perfect memory but if they were tested on what the topic actually meant rather than what was in the book they would fail miserably whereas the other student will pass with flying colors. The problem posing is looked at as an “alternative way of being” (Halberstam 292) because it is not how we live life and it is not because it is wrong but because of our educational