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    Paulo Freire does an excellent job of communicating with and compelling his audience that “the banking concept method” creates a problem for future generations. In the essay, his purpose is to show new generations how different education system work. His only goal was to divide education systems into two parts: “Banking Concept” and “Problem-Posing.” He states the banking concept is a horrible way of teaching and prevents students from learning the process and think of a solution on their own.…

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    Creativity A narrator tells a story, a story about something they experienced or are familiar with, but the narrator never allows anyone to add input into the story, and that takes away from creativity. The “Banking Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire portrays the illustration of the teacher being the narrator and the student being the patient. I believe that this relationship is uninspiring and unrealistic. Students spend the majority of their adolescent years in school listening,…

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    In the excerpt of “The Banking Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire, the readers are introduced to the problems in our education system. The reality in most classrooms subject the students to the dictations of teachers, who expect the regurgitation of those lectures. Education in schools are no longer based on helping the students think outside the box but maintain a uniformity of information that the teacher or a higher form of authority deems important. However, proposed the author, by…

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    effective for a small amount of time. That shouldn’t be the case, people should learn things in a way that will be in their memory if not forever at least very close to indefinitely. “One of the most influential radical educators of our world” was Paulo Freire, who had a different concept of teaching in relation to others (242). He believed that the way many teachers taught didn’t help the students fully learn or grasp the material. He thought that in order for the students to grasp the material…

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    the essay “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” that was found in the “Ways of Reading” textbook, the author reviews one of these many methods. The method reviewed was coined by Paulo Freire, who argues that the standard forms of education, “define the teacher as the active agent and the student as the passive agent.” Freire argues this method isn’t effective. The purpose of the essay is to show that Freire’s belief is correct by use of example through the author’s past experience. The author…

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    According to the "The Banking Concept of Education" by Paulo Freire, I believe that Freire does a good job of showing the reader his idea about education. He makes the reader think about him/herself by the way he shows the fact obvious in their life. He hopes the reader know the depth of difference between the banking system and the problem-posing system. Therefore, this essay is talking about learning can only be achieved by communication with others and such type of learning cannot be achieved…

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    they ascend form secondary education into real, adult life. In “The “Banking” Concept of Education”, Paulo Freire suggests the idea that students are more than wastebaskets for knowledge. Freire discusses how a student’s education does not reach beyond “[extending], receiving, filling, and storing the deposits [of knowledge]”, otherwise known as the student’s themselves. (Freire 1). This is what Freire calls the “banking” concept of education. In this concept, there are no interpersonal…

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    reality education is so much more than a lecture from the teacher to the student because education is constantly being developed throughout a person’s everyday life. Two stories, “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire have two very different views on what the best method of education looks like. When comparing the two it is evident that the “problem-posing” method is better way to teach because it involves the students and allows them to fully claim their…

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    of Desire” and by Paulo Freire in his essay “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education.” One can make some assumptions about various strategies of teaching students, by considering methods used to teach Rodriguez. The types of relationships Rodriguez had with his teachers, family and peers were heavily affected by specific methods of education going on in that period. Freire in “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” argues how classrooms in today’s society are not equally fair. Freire, in his essay,…

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    Sacrifice In The Alchemist

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    Edwin Aguirre College English IV Mr.Engh 22 September 2017 Period 8 Chasing After A Dream Everyone makes a sacrifice on their way to achieving a goal, no matter what it takes. The novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, follows a young shepherd, Santiago, on his quest to find a treasure destined for him. He makes many sacrifices along the way. This is something that people can relate to easily due to the fact that the majority of the people make sacrifices in order to achieve their goals. I…

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