Over the last couple of months I have been researching progression and regression on education. I have found that many previous and current educators, students and parents are not satisfied with the school systems in which children of the United States are attending. A narrow curriculum, a decline in improvement of public schools and instructing students only to pass standardized tests are some of the most common reasons of dissatisfaction of parents, students, educators, and whomever else is concerned. Since 1945 there have been several instances in which the government and the American people have tried to implement changes in the Department of Education. One of the most famous cases has been Brown vs The Board on Education in 1954. Not long
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Freire feels that instead of teachers filling students up with significant content they are being filled with just words. He also creates his own terminology to describe the relationship between student and teacher which he calls “the banking concept of education”. In the banking concept of education the teacher recites information that students are required to memorize and repeat when questioned. In “the "banking" concept of education, teachers deposit lectures and words that students must receive, file, and store until time to withdraw. Freire writes, “The more students work at storing deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that …show more content…
Fromm believes an overabundance of obedience leads to mental slavery and that is what many people would agree it exists in our school systems today. Fromm says “disobedience is the root of human history and it is very likely that obedience will be the terminator of it”, I agree entirely in the aspect of education, because the most important changes and events in American history have come from the act of disobedience and a desire for change. As long as the American public is content with the status quo of our school systems from narrow curriculum to very difficult standardized test students are required to take in order to pass to the next grade lever or to graduate the crisis in education will remain the same. We have become a society of nothing but obedience and though obedience is not always a bad thing as I mentioned earlier too much obedience can lead to mental slavery. In The Matrix, a 1999 American-Australian science fiction action film about (SUMMARY OF THE MATRIX). Morpheus tells Neo that “some of them can be bent, some of them can be broken,” in which he is referring to the rules of society. . I share Morpheus insight; we as individuals have to be intelligent enough to know which ones should be broken and which ones need to
Freire feels that instead of teachers filling students up with significant content they are being filled with just words. He also creates his own terminology to describe the relationship between student and teacher which he calls “the banking concept of education”. In the banking concept of education the teacher recites information that students are required to memorize and repeat when questioned. In “the "banking" concept of education, teachers deposit lectures and words that students must receive, file, and store until time to withdraw. Freire writes, “The more students work at storing deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that …show more content…
Fromm believes an overabundance of obedience leads to mental slavery and that is what many people would agree it exists in our school systems today. Fromm says “disobedience is the root of human history and it is very likely that obedience will be the terminator of it”, I agree entirely in the aspect of education, because the most important changes and events in American history have come from the act of disobedience and a desire for change. As long as the American public is content with the status quo of our school systems from narrow curriculum to very difficult standardized test students are required to take in order to pass to the next grade lever or to graduate the crisis in education will remain the same. We have become a society of nothing but obedience and though obedience is not always a bad thing as I mentioned earlier too much obedience can lead to mental slavery. In The Matrix, a 1999 American-Australian science fiction action film about (SUMMARY OF THE MATRIX). Morpheus tells Neo that “some of them can be bent, some of them can be broken,” in which he is referring to the rules of society. . I share Morpheus insight; we as individuals have to be intelligent enough to know which ones should be broken and which ones need to