In "The Banking Concept of Education,” the author, Paolo Freire, talks about how teachers and students need to work together to expand awareness that is vitally important to overcoming oppression in the classroom. The banking method and the problem-posing education method are a couple different strategies that can be used to overcome obstacles associated with the teaching of education. The banking concept is a way that students are seen as empty containers that are to be filled with information. The students get the information, memorize it and repeat. Freire claims that the teachers treat the students like a bank where they just deposit information. One of the problems with this is that the student never gets to analyze the information. Freire
