Shailyn Warnock English 1030 Dr. McNeil September 1, 2014 11:00- 11:50 a.m.
“The Banking Concept of Education”
Understanding the Text 1. Freire problems with education as a “narration sickness” are that he feels it dehumanizes the students. He feels that the teacher as the narrator talks about reality as lifeless and motionless. He states that the student remembers what’s taught but does not understand, for example, as used in the text, the students are taught that four times four is sixteen, but they don’t know why four times four is sixteen. His main problem with education as a narration sickness is that students just become empty containers needing to be filled by teachers. It is mostly based that what the teacher says, and teach the student must only contain, they have no other role. His solution is that there be a teacher-student contradiction. He wants it to be that sometimes the teacher is the student and the student is the teacher at the same time that the student stays the student and the teacher remains the teacher. 2. I feel he listed it very well because it’s true. I come in a class usually knowing very little to nothing about the subject; empty container, and the teacher fills me up and teaches me what I didn’t know before. The teacher is usually always talking and in control, students rarely have a say so. The list is pretty accurate. Because it doesn’t matter where or who you are, the teacher is the teacher and the student is the student.
3. Because the students must submit to authority and in this case is the teacher.
This model allows the oppressive relationship to continue because the list Freire made, keep the students in their role as the container and the teachers as the depositors.
4. As liberation they must reject the banking concept of education, so instead they have their own system, which is, Problem- posing education. 5. I believe the analogy of education, as a bank is valid. The teacher teaches (deposits) us information we don’t know and we retain that information (withdrawal), and save it for later use in life.
Making Connections 1. It gives humanity to people and not dehumanizing them with a different system. Because they didn’t want educated slaves, they were afraid that if the slaves were educated they’d fight back or fight for their rights. 2. He says that in the Banking Concept of Education, the students are being dehumanized. I guess they’re close to Hsun Tzu because he felt all people were evil and all the same. 3. They are both set out to better the poor by first educating them.
Writing About the Text 1. A classroom where the teacher guides the student but doesn’t necessary control and lectures them. He/she explains and the students do, but they work as a team to make it work. I would such a classroom exist on campus, like an art class or phycology class where there discussion back in forth and everyone gets a say in n idea, no one is told exactly what to do just when its due. 2. 3. Yes most student s definitely expects teachers to be bankers. Personally I really hate when a teacher assumes we know something just because it was suppose to be taught to us previously. I feel every teacher should do a review and deposit our empty containers or somewhat full containers with what we don’t know or need to brush up on.
I don’t think anyone would pay to not have teachers as bankers because what’s the point? We pay for an education, yes we are adults we have to do a lot on our own but the teachers are there to give us information, teach, and explain. They don’t have to go detail by detail but they are expected to teach us to the point where we can take control and educate our self with the information provide. I wouldn’t if students expect teachers as bankers then that’s what they would get, help teachers, not teachers that just sit there or teachers that make them feel dumb=b for asking a question, teachers that are there to actually help! 4.