Education Unit Analysis “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.” (Freire 1) Utilizing a metaphor, Freire critiques the traditional education system in his literary work the Pedagogy of the Oppressed by comparing students to empty containers in which teacher’s deposit knowledge. Freire’s writing throughout his work exposes how the traditional education must transform in order to eliminate the negatives that stem as a result of the system. The traditional education system must be altered because it detracts from the ability to further expand our understanding of language, negates education as a process of inquiry, increases passive and oppressive roles in society.
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The student is not allowed to expand outside of what the teacher deposits to them, thus narrowing what knowledge they can obtain. This also discourages the student to critically think themselves as the banking system of education teaches that “students know nothing and the teachers know everything, and the teacher teaches and the students are taught.” (Freire 2) The students become bias to their teacher’s opinions and fundamentally the teachers think for the students. Denouncing education as a process of inquiry, Freire asserts, “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” (Freire 1) Essentially, inquiry is rejected in this system because the students become more accustomed to not questioning the teacher’s knowledge because they know …show more content…
It becomes readily apparent how Wright experiences oppression first hand, when he became shocked at the idea of someone other than a Negro being oppressed. (Wright 1) He was not born into the banking system because he is uneducated, but it massively affected him. As a result of the system, Wright and the Negro population were denied education to remain as oppressed people who retain their low social class in a continuous cycle of poverty. Wright’s tendency to be passive to his own oppression results because it is the norm of the time. Not until he becomes an autodidact does he become empowered from language through literature, which drives his inherent nature to be free. The suppression of his people becomes blatantly obvious through his readings and he undergoes transformation to a dynamic character. Ultimately it fuels such a desire for freedom that he decides he can no longer live in the South and wants to restart in the north to receive equal treatment and
The student is not allowed to expand outside of what the teacher deposits to them, thus narrowing what knowledge they can obtain. This also discourages the student to critically think themselves as the banking system of education teaches that “students know nothing and the teachers know everything, and the teacher teaches and the students are taught.” (Freire 2) The students become bias to their teacher’s opinions and fundamentally the teachers think for the students. Denouncing education as a process of inquiry, Freire asserts, “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” (Freire 1) Essentially, inquiry is rejected in this system because the students become more accustomed to not questioning the teacher’s knowledge because they know …show more content…
It becomes readily apparent how Wright experiences oppression first hand, when he became shocked at the idea of someone other than a Negro being oppressed. (Wright 1) He was not born into the banking system because he is uneducated, but it massively affected him. As a result of the system, Wright and the Negro population were denied education to remain as oppressed people who retain their low social class in a continuous cycle of poverty. Wright’s tendency to be passive to his own oppression results because it is the norm of the time. Not until he becomes an autodidact does he become empowered from language through literature, which drives his inherent nature to be free. The suppression of his people becomes blatantly obvious through his readings and he undergoes transformation to a dynamic character. Ultimately it fuels such a desire for freedom that he decides he can no longer live in the South and wants to restart in the north to receive equal treatment and