This article was a very confusing read for me, and it was
hard for me to grasp an understanding. However, the first thing I noticed with
this article how true the statement “Education thus becomes an act of
depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the
depositor” is. Throughout my education, I’ve noticed that are some classes I
have taken where I genuinely did not retain anything. It was more of the
teacher/professor would spew some information that I would write down,
eventually memorize, and then later forget, but in these classes I never learned
the significance of why I was learning the material that I was being taught.
That’s why this article bashes on the banking concept of education. Freire
mentions that fails in the education system for multiple reasons including
limiting the create and critical thinking that education should promote.
However, in problem posing education, students are able to “develop
their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which
and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not a static
reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.” Freire explains that
this concept helps create conversation, helps promote self-growth, and also
encourages everyone to be a forever learner.
I think in a classroom setting it would be hard to promote
problem posing education, and it would be hard to try and steer away from
banking concept of education. I think, as a teacher, if I were to incorporate
both it would create an equal balance between providing information for
students, but also guiding them to critically think and think more in depth
about certain concepts and subjects.
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