The Banking Concept of Education and The Achievement of Desire

This separation from his family caused a longing in his life. But this longing was superseded by what he suspected his teachers could give him. Rodriguez develops a double personality of sorts. The person he is at home, the polite child who lovingly does what his parents ask of him. And then the academic persona he

At every step of life considering the current world, a person of my age is possibly attached to a series of institutions that have molded them in a way or the other. But either way, schooling does not only end at the academic level but do entail so much that is responsible for the upbringing of an individual. In this paper, which is more of an academics autobiography is going to talk much about my schooling all through from the preliminary stage to later stages and finally to where I am right now. In the paper, I am going to analyze the role various institutions have played in my life, the role my teachers, parents, family and friends have played. The role the public administration has played in my life and far much the role of each and every

In Freire’s article, he uses a term called “banking education” to illustrate the teacher-student relationship at any time inside or outside of school. The communication between teacher and student is almost nonexistent. He describes the students as empty containers that are sitting in a classroom patiently waiting for the instructor to deposit knowledge into their brains. According to Freire, “The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the students’ creative power and to stimulate their credulity servers the interest of oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed” (Freire 2). He argues that this type of teaching

Paulo Freire recognizes the practice of roles that “mirror oppressive society” by noting the overwhelming social acceptance that “the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects”, utterly halting any sort of independent or creative thinking from a student (Freire 261). A personal example of such a loss in experience comes directly from my freshman high school English class which strongly represents a “banking” atmosphere. In my English class, my teacher spewed information at the class to memorize and reproduce when asked, but there was never any conversation about other possible interpretations or even deeper meanings of text,

In Paolo Freire’s essay “The “Banking” Concept of Education”, the author speaks about how teachers’ method of educating students are like banking. They make “deposits” in the student in the form of information. He makes it clear that education by narration makes it basically obsolete. There is no innovation or re-invention of the world around the student but a retelling of a world seen through the teacher’s point of view. Freire points out that knowledge can only emerge through the humanization of the pupil. The act of relating that person through the world and others around them.

Paulo Freire, one of the most influential radical educators of the world, believes that today’s education is substandard. In his essay “The Banking Concept of Education”, he discusses the classroom dynamic between students and teachers. He defines the "banking" concept as narration, with the teacher being the narrator and the students as “containers”, mechanically memorizing the information narrated by the teacher. Freire's main argument is that the "banking" concept as a whole is not helpful or beneficial to the students and needs to be removed from today’s education. What he proposes instead is the so-called “problem-posing” concept of education which focuses on the teacher posing questions and real life problems for students to discuss,

When asked if a nonfictional work such a Paulo Freire’s, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” (1968) is one which continues to bears relevance to modern times, one might be immediately curious as to which time it was exactly that a generally unhelpful and unfair caricaturization of the entirety of education was enormously relevant. I am altogether unsure at which point between 1968 and today the inquirer is referring to, this time unquestionably having a great need for a framework that dichotomizes arbitrarily the relationship between countless millions of individuals as a painfully transparent means to cynically serve certain ideological motives. But seeing as though the question is loaded with this presupposition, I shall not pursue the point

Professor Miller’s old professor, Professor Rosen, sounds a lot like a teacher who practices what Paolo Friere calls “The Banking Concept of Education” the title of an essay about problems with traditional education methods. Friere is critical of the banking concept, which he describes as a one-way street of teachers trying to fill, or “deposit,” knowledge into the minds of the students (1). Friere argues that this style of education reinforces problems in societies in which people with power and wealth hold their position and power over the

My understanding of Freire's "banking" model is that both teachers and students are distanced as if they were emotionless machines, and that " it [the "banking" education] attempts to control thinking and action" (p.64) . This is against the nature of human

In Paulo Freire’s The “Banking” Concept of Education he discusses how students are the receptacles that are to be filled with the content of the teachers narration. The students are expected to recognize the information given in class, test, quizzes and homework. Teachers are forcing their opinions and teachings on students and the students just have to adjust to it without any say in the situation. In the banking concept the teacher is the authority, meaning the students must listen to any and everything they say. While the students are the oppressed and the listening objects who are supposed to memorize everything. Freire claims that the teacher treats the students as a bank in which they deposit information into them.

“The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified. Education is suffering from narration sickness.” “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire, compares the two educational systems, the “banking concept” and the “problem-posing concept”. In his essay, he opposes what he coined as the “banking concept” of education with what he designated as the “problem-posing” education. Freire describes the “banking concept” of education as to when students are treated as empty containers that are waiting to be filled with information by the teacher. In this concept of education, student rights extend only as far as taking in the information, and storing the information

In Paulo Freire’s essay “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” the difference between problem-solving and banking education is distinguished. In problem-solving education, students are able to think critically for themselves and are active in their learning through discussions. Freire believes that the current education system exists through what he calls the banking method of education in which students are no more than “containers” or “receptacles” that are waiting to be filled by the teacher, who knows everything. The information given to those who are learning is not questioned but rather is readily accepted and memorized. The concept of an omniscient power depositing information into the less knowledgeable is evident not just in education but also in media. Whatever the more powerful party decides is important is placed into advertisements which may be accepted without question, just as in the education system.

Freire Speaks of education in schools as mindless and is only depositing phrases into student minds as if they were merely banks. This, he says, makes the people lack creativity even if the information in them is formally catalogued and available to be used at any time. The teacher, in his sense, needs to justify his or her existence by oppressing the students for their ignorance for what is knowledgable and what is not. The banking concept adheres to the wants of the teachers and make it so his or her pupils will not truly see the world and will not transform it. It makes the people easy to dominate and be fitted to a society that is controlling them. To break free from the oppression that the banking concept has force unto the people, the

In the modern system, education serves as the foundation for other leading aspects of politics, economy and social interactions. Investing in a reliable and solid education are key factors to construct healthy individuals, that through integration, will compose a thriving society. Considering that the educational system is divided into two learning concepts, the issue to evaluate and choose one poses a doubt for students, that are in direct contact with both benefits and disadvantages offered to them. Paulo Freire introduces these two learning concepts: the banking concept, which according to him, is a “misguided system… [that projects] absolute ignorance…” (349); and the problem-posing method, a “libertarian education.” Although both methods are used to obtain knowledge and make education possible, their approaches and ultimate purpose for the acquired knowledge contradict each other, and pose an issue for

The first day of a new school year is daunting. Imagine as you enter the halls with your brand new notebooks and school supplies, greeted by the smiles and frowns of your fellow students at the close of another summer, you are embarking on another part of your life. With this journey comes different obstacles and stress you will face. Education is supposed to be the tool that prepares one for this life, but are all students really being prepared? In Paulo Freire’s, “The “Banking” Concept of Education”, he points out the contradictions within our education system and provides a potential solution for them. By challenging the notions of our education system and engaging in a narrative that does not exclude students, the ignorance formed through this system can be overcome.