Banking Concept Of Education Summary

In the excerpt from “The Banking Concept of Education” the author, Paulo Freire explains the critical flaw in the current education system. He continues by offering his believed solution to this problem. The two concepts Freire discusses in this excerpt are the “banking concept” of education and the “problem-posing method” of education. The “banking concept” is talked about rather negatively, whereas the “problem-posing method” is talked about highly. Freire believes in the “problem-posing method” and that students should have free-will to a certain extent in the classroom with less authoritative power from the teacher during discussions.

In Walker Percy’s “The Loss of the Creature,” he argues that having a preconceived image of something can create a symbolic complex, a situation in which one loses the true meaning of an experience due to the images already made up in their mind. He argues that in order to rid their minds of the symbolic complex, people have to overlook the biases projected to them. Percy also describes a loss of sovereignty in the world due to people following the path of others and not letting their curiosity guide them. He believes sovereignty can only be regained by venturing from the overused path. While Percy believes that people should avoid conversation with others because dialog allows for structure and guidance, Paulo Freire in “The Banking Concept of Education” believes that conversation amongst others and proposing questions are crucial steps in the process of learning, otherwise known as problem-posing education. He argues that the banking concept is a burden to academics because it forces students to let their teachers take the reins, giving them all the power to tell them how their minds should work. Percy and Freire have different ideas regarding communication and how people should interact in society. Does communicating actually limit sovereignty instead of promoting it? The banking model completely eliminates sovereignty by taking conversation out of the picture and creating a symbolic complex of the expectations of education. The problem posing model, meant to stimulate communication, is not so innocent regarding sovereignty because it forces students to think in specific ways. However, eliminating these methods of teaching would ruin education altogether because they both rely on each other’s ways of communicating.

Freire was a proponent of the problem-posing method of teaching. This method relies on one 's metacognitive awareness. It is important for the student to know where they are in their understanding of the material. Further, this method of teaching encourages self-reflection in that a student thinks of how they are thinking. The problem-posing method encourages critical thinking whereas the banking concept does not.

Paolo Freire thinks, “Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection”. (Page 31). I think education should provide a link for the students to analyse and develop their personal experiences and help them to view these under a new light. Education needs to be a “liberating” process by which the learner develops a critical analysis to learning. I believe in a constructivist educational approach that leads the student to research about the subject to “hit the problem” first. We then discuss it in the classroom so that when the solution is understood it is valuable and meaningful. I would like my teaching to lead the students to think for themselves so they develop and acknowledge the analytic process. The techniques explained in class should be supported by the student’s own researches. With the emergence of the World Wide Web and mostly online tutorial videos, it is vital that my learners

The greatest thing about humans is that they have the ability to think. Thinking is what differs people from each other and makes people who they are. Freire understands the importance of thinking and wants to start a discussion on the school systems attempt to restrict thinking. This is what he tries to do in his article, something that he does pretty well. He believes the school system solely cares about facts and numbers. The teachers feed their students information and expect them to memorize it, and spit it back on paper. “The reason the banking system continues to thrive is to serve the purpose of the authority, whose peace of mind rests on how well the oppressed fit in the world created by the oppressors, and how little they question it (Freire, page 219). Educators have to understand that the classroom is a leveled playing field, teaching and learning simultaneously through discussions with each other.

In Paulo Freire’s article, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” he discusses how there is an absence of imagination and critical thinking in the “banking” method of education. Paulo Freire contends that the “banking” method of instruction is not a viable strategy to educate students. In the film, Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, Mr. Keating, an English professor in the film, liberates the student 's mind by making them confront the issues exhibited to them. The "problem-posing" strategy was utilized as a part of the film, yet since the students’ were used to the "banking" method, they did not know how to face the issue, rather they found another approach to dispose of it. “Problem-posing” method demonstrates that the "banking" method is by no means the only type of instruction out there. Weir’s film and Freire’s article demonstrate how well a teacher-student relationship can be when using the “problem-posing” method and the“banking” method, in other to understand Freire’s explicit and implicit message.

I strongly agree with the Freire views on problem-posing. Problem-posing is the best way to go about teaching students. The students have the opportunity to express themselves through communication. By expressing themselves, they are vulnerable to learning and experiencing the benefits of problem-posing. Students become interactive with the teachers who are positioned to promote a comfortable environment. This assists in creating friendships. With problem-posing, men and women are able to experience freedom and success. As a mentor for the incoming freshmen in high school, I created an atmosphere that allowed the freshmen to feel comfortable enough to be confident in who they were.

Problem-based teaching is also rare in tertiary education though it would help because it uses a rich array of modes.” (Fleming, 1995)

To solve the problem plaguing the education system, Freire offers a solution which involves a “problem-posing education”. In this system the roles of teachers and students become mixed and left more open to interpretation. Both the teacher and student actively participate in effective communication to gain an understanding of the information being taught instead of just memorization. According to Freire, “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient,

Paulo Freire raises ideas and issues with the contemporary education system in his “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education.” He analogizes the traditional copy notes, memorize, and regurgitate information to the modern-day banking systems. He writes early on in this work, “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.” “This is the ‘banking’ concept of education” (216). Freire puts the way most classes are taught as of late in a great perspective. He also gives reasonable solutions to the many disputes of the current and age old teacher-student atmosphere. Though throughout the writing, Freire expresses his ideas and opinions in a logical and readable manner, no reader would be able to understand all of his intricacies and anecdotes included. While most would delve into the understood, looking into the foggy and misunderstood could be much more freeing.

The banking concept of education is a tern used by Firere to explain the education system. He states that the education system teaches “students to memorize mechanically the narrated account. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teachers”. As a whole he states that the education system needs to be changed. His concept still applies to the education system today, even though it was written decades prior. The Banking Concept of Education accurately describes public high schools and how the standardized tests and state requirement have changed the teaching styles. These new teaching styles have forced students to memorize and regurgitate information.

When you think of a typical day in any classroom, you probably imagine students sitting in a desk taking notes with the teacher talking non stop. It’s like our minds are empty and it’s up to the teacher to fill us up with the required information for the course. The next day and the day after that, it’s the same process over and over again. I just explained the banking system which Freire describes as the flaws in the teaching-learning space for students and teachers. In his book he states, “the teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable”. This in return causes students to have a lack of creativity and not understanding the significance of what’s being taught. He turns this around by bringing up a new problem-posing education which emphasizes a better atmosphere in a classroom by asking questions, being open minded, and keeping a mindset for

In Chapter 2 Freire explores the structure of existing education, the banking approach, which consists of a subject (the teacher) transmitting concrete, inflexible knowledge to a number of objects (students). This style of education is reproduced and encouraged by oppressors because it encourages a view of the world as static and people as objective observers of it. Freire posits the problem-solving approach as an antidote to the banking approach. With the problem-solving approach, the lines between teacher and student are blurred. Everyone is encouraged to constantly examine and re-examine themselves, the world around them and the ever-changing relationships between them. Through this type of education, people come to see themselves as developing human beings who

Paulo Freire wrote “The Banking Concept of Education”. His article is based on the “banking” concept education and problem posing education. Banking education is the learning method between students and teacher where most of the participation in class is done by the teacher. Learners don’t have any idea what the educator is talking about, this is the reason why Freire opposes banking education. Problem posing education is a learning method where students are taught practically about the subject with real examples. The writer supports problem posing method of education where students can benefit in terms of enhancing their critical thinking skills, remembering the concepts for long term. This education

There are two ways in which one leads a classroom of young entrepreneurs of learning. These forms of education are concreted in either a banking concept or problem posing approach. Paulo Freire, the creator of such ideas, is a man who believes in the distinct difference that either reaps learning or destroys it. Banking concept education, according to Freire, is an education that “becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor” (Freire 244). In simpler terms, banking concept is the lack of true understanding by students. Learning is not a responsibility, instead it is an act to passively check off the list. In contrast, Freire speaks of problem posing as “liberating education [that] consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information” (Freire 249). To expand, Freire is bringing to light that this type of education is the development of genuine, active understanding between teachers and students. Freire believes in critical, investigative work between teachers and students. He believes that the banking concept restricts growth and keeps students and teachers from a true critical understanding of the world. Both banking concept education and problem posing education are evident in the film Mona Lisa Smile.