Dehumanization In Education

When reading the article Why Go to School by Steven Wolk, it is clear what he believes about how education and school are run today. His opinion is education today sucks the creativity and love to learn from children. By having students complete endless worksheet and read thousands of pages we were was destroying our children. Even more so teachers are spoon-feeding their student the information they want their students to learn. Instead of having student learn and figure out information for themselves. By spoon feeding students, they are inable think beyond memorizing. When asked ambiguous question like “why” they don’t know how to think in that way. Steven Wolk sums up our currently educational system in an interesting and effective way by calling it a “fill-in the blank” education.

The Jim Crow Era was peak time for segregation causing Jefferson’s journey in the novel, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines to open up the eyes of many, no matter what one’s skin color is, by showing what it means to die as a hero even when seen as the villain. Grant is to make Jefferson a man before he dies by showing him the truths about religion, race, and the United States justice system. Jefferson also teaches Grant a few things about life, creating a unique bond between the two.

Education has existed throughout history in one form or another. The process of passing down accumulated information from one generation to the next has been present in every human society, past and present. From the young listening to the stories of the elders around the hearths of the ancient world, to pupils being instructed in the alphabet in a one room schoolhouse on the American frontier, to the present day online teaching sessions; the tradition of teaching and learning has been a constant in the ever changing world. Education has been and continues to be used for many purposes, chief among them being the creation of an educated citizenry, the empowerment of that citizenry, and improvement of the

Public education has faced many extreme challenges and obstacles historically. Based on the films I’ve viewed I think the top issues were segregation and poverty. Segregation in schools started in the 1800s and continued until the 1960s. I learned mostly about the problems with segregation in the film A Struggle for Education Equality. In the film, it explains facts and statistics about children and how their lives were like. From around the time period of 1950-1980 schools were very much segregated and only ⅗ of students graduated and 50% of them went to college. The fight for equality in schools began in Topeka Kansas where high schools became integrated. Elementary schools, however, were not integrated and still segregated. The NAACP tried to have 13 parents try to enroll their kids into white school but of course, it failed because of segregation. Linda Brown was one of the children in the experiment and that’s when the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka of 1954 was created which banned the inequality in schools. The southern states still had segregation problems, unfortunately, but the Elementary and Secondary Education Act gave 4 billion dollars of aid to disadvantaged children and around 9 years after that, 91% of southern black children attended integrated schools. Segregation had clearly gotten so much better but was a major problem for a long time in terms of public education. Poverty, in my opinion, is another major problem facing public education today. In

The educational system has been around for thousands of years, and throughout time, there have always existed equality issues. From girls not being able to attend school as far as the boys, to children being separated into different schools because of the color of their skin, equality in education is an issue that has plagued humanity for far too long. Throughout the years, there have been some important decisions made in an effort to afford equality in education. Perhaps, as we move forward in our thinking and beliefs, we may find a way to make education a right that everyone who has the desire to grow through knowledge should be afforded, regardless of circumstance.

Dehumanization is a big part of World war II, it is the reason why World War II is the deadliest war in human history, it is also the reason why the soldiers were willing to point their gun at another human being and to end “its” life without a blink. Not only was dehumanizing a big part of this, racism also played a big role as well. Racism is very powerful; it enlarges the hate towards the differences and made people treat their enemies as subhuman. Just as John Dower had mentioned in his book War Without Mercy, “Race hate fed atrocities, and atrocities in turn fanned the fires of the race hate. The dehumanization of the Other contributed immeasurably to the psychological distancing that facilitates killing, not only on the battlefield but also in the plans adopted by strategists far removed from the actual scene of combat” (11).

Students are being taught the wrong way according the Freire. Freire mentions "narration leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into containers, into receptacles to be filled by the teacher"(pg. 1). In other words this means that 's a teacher 's or instructor 's job is to teach the children all the requirements that are needed and they expect them to know all the

This “flawed” concept in education today is the oppressive “depositing” of information (banking education) by teachers to students. “Banking education (for obvious reasons) attempts, by mythicizing reality, to conceal certain facts which explain the way people exist in the world…” (p.224) The “banking concept” is an act that hinders the intellectual growth of students by turning them into “receptors” and “collectors” of information that have no true connection to their lives. The “banking concept” is essentially turning humans into objects. “Banking education inhibits creativity and domesticates (although it cannot completely destroy) the intentionality of consciousness by isolating consciousness from the world, thereby denying people their ontological and historical vocation of becoming more fully human.” (p.224) This type of education

Despite dehumanization being an important phenomenon in social psychology, it has been neglected by some philosophers. It has extensive ramifications for moral philosophy. Study of dehumanization in psychological aspects is very crucial as it has implications for diverse areas as conceptions of what is humanity, notions of racism and race, genocide and war. This paper will analyze slavery on concepts of dehumanization and how it affected the history of psychology. Works of various prominent figures in the history of psychology will be analyzed, and their implications put forth. The paper will further discuss and analyze how an individual’s concepts contribute to the development of the modern psychology and how their ideas are employed in the contemporary society.

What do students obtain through education? Freire in his essay ‘The Banking Concept of Education’ argues that students gain useless and meaningless knowledge through education, and I agree with Freire because education has become an act of depositing meaningless information into students. Freire believes the current educational system is flawed due to the “Banking Concept”, which Freire describes as, “an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor”(Freire 72). Freire implies that teachers are only telling students what to know rather than conversting with them, which explains why Freire insists that “education is suffering from narration

Rawlings’ idea about both the student and teacher being participants and putting in effort reminds me of what Freire explains about being active and with the world. Freire implies that education is a type of libertarian movement. Students and teachers both need to be learning and teaching in order to revolutionize the world around them. By possessing the consciousness needed, students and teachers will be able to realize that the information they are learning has an impact on the world once they apply themselves. However, Freire explains that if the mind of one is not playing an active role, then the process of dehumanization will begin. Students will no longer have the ability to actually comprehend or question the information they are learning.

Why do we educate? Why do we create curriculum standards that order teachers ,what to teach, when to teach it, and how to teach it? But, most importantly, why do we teach our students as if they were in a prison system? What I mean is, why do we believe compliance mixed with memorization is the proper way of developing students in the classroom? While reading Ta-Nehisi Coates the main idea that stuck out to me, because of it’s accuracy, was the notion that, “the classroom was a jail of other people’s interests”. I believe at the foundation, this thinking is factual, however I do not necessarily think it as wrong. Nor is it a bad idea, I believe it has just had bad execution. Execution that was met with a dose of laziness, and hefty amount

What is racism? The definition is prejudice or discrimination to another race. Unfortunately, racism is evident almost anywhere especially in a high school. Name-calling, bullying, verbal abuse – are all forms of racism and can be seen in high schools, where all different backgrounds –teachers, pupils or staff – face with negative backlash of racism. Students of different race groups find it extremely tough to bond with their classmates from other “races circles”. How damaging is racism to schools? To society?, is it all black and white or are we blind to it? In this essay I will discuss racist incidents in schools specifically in America and Britain, who are infamous for racial incidents, and how it will affect the students and any others involved in those situations in the future

Factory workers are being produced today, although the age of factories has long passed. Students are dehumanized from their first graded assignment, their first report card, the first time they step into school until they graduate. At that point, they are completely stripped of critical thinking and creativity and see learning only as memorization for a test. There seems to be no meaning beyond the face value of what teachers say and possibly less. All that is needed is to memorize word for word what the teacher says. They don’t perceive “what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of “capital” in the affirmation “the capital of Pará is Belem,” that is, what Belem means for Pará and what Pará means for Brazil” (240). Freire introduces the banking system as the cause of dehumanization, but it is not the system in general that causes it. It is the use of grading. They are used to measure the value and intelligence of students, so this is all students focus on. They only do what they need to receive the highest marks. However, this means the students don’t have time to truly understand their material or realize that they don’t have to spend that much time with the material. After all, the purpose of the banking system is to just fill students with information.

Traditional educational methods are by no means ineffective, as evidenced by our populations increasing number of individuals attaining higher education (Murnrne, “Graduations on the rise”). Every human being is a unique organism, therefore it stands to reason that we each have different way of learning. Current educational methods that are open to and required of all young children ages 3-5 are based on academic achievement. A concept well understood by adults but completely foreign to a tiny human who has not even learned to tie their shoes. How much of a long term effect can memorizing 2x10 = 20 as opposed to actually seeing how and understanding hot the answer was achieved (Caring for Your Baby). Its knowing how to get from point a to point be but not knowing how to read a map if you have to get to point c.