Tuesday, January 10, 2017

The Banking Concept of Education - Paulo Friere

Paulo Friere wrote the book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In this book there is a concept called the, Banking concept of cultivation. Education becomes an act of depositing, in which the students be the depositories and the instructor is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat, this is the banking concept of education. The Banking ideal of Education is similar to students who are zombies; they go to yr to class and listen to the teacher, but they are not allowed to doubt what is organism taught.\nIn the Banking conceit of Education, Friere is attempt to persuade the readers to believe that the traditional substance of teaching isnt the way we should teach are students. Friere mentions that students are slaves but, Unlike the slave, they never widen that they educate the teacher. Students who are slaves do what they are told, they never question or understand what theyre experienceing. The Banking judgment says student do not ask questions. Like slaves in 1619-1865, they couldnt ask questions; they took orders and took what there master said as to be true.\nAs students and as human race beings we are creative, but as Friere has said creativity is reduce to suite the oppressor. The oppressor is the teacher, they were taught to pass on the tradition of oppressing the students and molding them into what they requisite in society. The banking approach to braggy education, for example, result never proffer to students that they critically consider reality. How will a student learn if they cant critically think active what they are learning? The educators dont command the student to think; they are just there to listen, memorize, and repeat. Freire says that the Banking Concept of Education assumes that the student is base and that the teacher is the only maven with knowledge. Freire argues that until there is a way to encourage better c...

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