Memorization in Education Essay

"The formula for this is as such; here is a list of all our U.S presidents thus far." Memorization after memorization. Paulo Freire expresses his view about our current education system in his essay, "The 'Banking ' Concept of Education", and points out its many flaws. He classifies the education system to be that of a "banking" system. Banking education refers to the learners being mere containers or vessels waiting to obediently be oppressively "filled" or "deposited" with information by their educators, the oppressors. The students, the "inanimate objects", are merely accepting and memorizing whatever content the teacher throws at them. Paulo Freire proposes an antithesis method that is based on reciprocal education in which he calls, the…

experience, memorization is only beneficial when I can translate it into something meaningful, but without perceiving the content it becomes useless and quickly forgotten. In my elementary years, educators followed their curriculum strictly. Each week, I was introduced to new sets of words called sight words. By the end of each week, I was tested on spelling and pronunciation of the sight words, which required memorization. On the test, words were presented as nouns and adjectives. But as a…

completed at MECHS were far too easy; I would describe education as common sense. Educators at my school encourage me to become a full time student at Beaufort County Community College. When I first attended BCC I was a little nervous since I had heard horror stories about how students fail classes that are supposed to be simple, such as, English. I thought this could never happen to me; due to the fact…

Drill, baby, drill. Rote learning, long discredited, is now recognized as one reason that children whose families come from India (where memorization is still prized) are creaming their peers in the National Spelling Bee Championship. This cultural difference also helps to explain why students in China (and Chinese families in the U.S.) are better at math. Meanwhile, American students struggle with complex math problems because, as research makes abundantly clear, they lack fluency in basic…

In addition to Feynman’s and Freire’s claims, Tzu also concluded that memorization is pointless. When focusing on finding “the way,” life’s purpose; memorization can make a student stride off that path of achieving life’s meaning. When students are “learning a mass of jumbled facts” they partake in “blindly following” others. As a result this, leads to a lack of creativity and ingenuity. Memorization is an ineffective method since “you may study to the end of your days and you will never be…

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…

stop; they are constantly searching for the answers to the never-ending unknown. Each and every child “[is] organically predisposed to be [a] critical thinker[ ]” (Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking). A child never wants to stop learning. They will yearn for knowledge even if they have heard and received all the possible answers. At this moment in life it is critical for the educational system to hold onto this natural inquisitiveness of a child. Once the child grows and begins heading towards…

The structure of education has changed drastically since it first began. As education grew more popular and schools began to be built in more places, lessons became more uniform and policies began to be put in place to structure education. However, as education has changed throughout the years, so has the quality of the education. In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education, Paulo Freire uses the comparison of a bank to the current style of education in order to reveal several problems within the…

highest-ranking universities in the world, but its primary and secondary education systems are failing to provide students with the necessary skills to become efficient and motivated employees. The excessive testing being enforced by the government has neither proven to be an effective manner of measuring intelligence nor a suitable aptitude test for college readiness. These ingrained examinations simply devour hours of useful teacher instruction that could instead be put towards impactful…

Paulo Freire goes in depth on what he calls the Banking Concept of Education. The thesis of the Banking Concept is “The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified.” I agree with Freire because school should not be about just memorization. Education needs to be a healthy relationship between pupil and teacher. Freire goes into detail about how the students are the containers and the teachers are the…