I am going to talk to you about Paulo Freire’s paper called
The “Banking” concept of education. In
this paper Freire is against the Banking concept and I agree with him that it
is not a very good way to educate new generations and getting them ready for
the road ahead of them and for real life.
The Banking system as it is in the paper says that the teachers give information
for the students to memorize and file away for later use. I am more inclined towered the way of
learning that Freire proposed in the writing which is how some of the Greek philosophers
taught there students by using logic and asking questions about real world problems
and doing activities based on real world application.
I am inclined to thank this way for after reading the paper
and taking experiences that I have had as a student that the best way to help
someone learn is to show them how it is going to apply to them in the
future. The reasons why I am do not
agree to the Banking system which in its defense a lot of people can get better
grades by just memorizing a bunch of information then relating it back to the
teacher on a quiz or test. I am one of
the people that has a hard time memorizing facts that I have no clue on how
they will relate to me later in life in other words making myself be a machine
by just absorbing information and filing it away as Freire would say.
Freire says that the teachers should teach the students and
the students should teach the teachers for the teachers to not know
everything. I agree that this is the
best way for if the teachers are to get better at teaching the next group if
kids they will have to learn from the students on what they did not know and
how to improve on making the class more enjoyable and be able to be understood later
in life. This also goes with the concept
that Freire put in that to be human the teachers can not thank they know
everything for nobody does know everything and the student are not just
machines that can be programed with a bunch of knowledge for that will not
humanize the at all if will be making them more like slaves to themselves.
In my experience most teachers combine the methods that Freire
says and the banking system which Freire did say is what some teachers do and
that is a step closer to making the students more human but they are still
robots just robots that have a little bit more free will which is what make us
human in the first place is that we have free will. Without us thanking through the problems that
are presented to us that we are not able to figure out how to solve by using
our minds for the only thing the teachers taught us was a bunch of facts and
not how to solve the problem we lose our humanity for then we are just machines
and machines can not figure out what to do unless a human programs it on what exactly
to do in the situation but if we where taught how to solve problem then we
would be using our own minds to figure it out and be free to succeed or fail at
a human by using the problem solving skills that the teachers showed us and by
asking questions on how the real world works.
