Friere's The Banking Concept Of Education: Response
The Banking Concept of Education – Response
My experience in the education system was not anything like ‘The “Banking” Concept of Education’ critiques it. It specifies on critiquing the teacher-student relationship and I would like to argue a few points made in this reading. Such as, how the teacher presents himself or herself, the relationship involving the teacher and student, and how students never discover that they also educate the teacher. I could argue these points through experiences I’ve had over my years as a student throughout the education system, I will focus on high school. I was offered Dance as a substitute for P.E. at my high school. Not only was the course amazing but the teacher was as well. She was the “teacher” but she made us (the students) feel as though she was also our equal. Completely opposite to how Friere says teachers present themselves. He says “The teacher presents (themselves) to (their) students as their necessary opposite”. Maybe in elementary school this could have been the case, considering I was somewhere between 3 to 5 decades younger than my teachers… Once, as a student, you have developed your concept of respect, so forth …show more content…
A teacher once told me “while being a teacher I’ve learnt more than while I was a student”. Yes, the teacher will narrate and be the one talking most of the time, but students are rarely patient, listening objects. Students (I’ve come in contact with) ask questions of “why?” all the time. They’re not just sitting listening, they’re thinking. Which results in more than just “the banking concept of education”. I’ve had some amazing relationships with teachers where they make the course a team building experience for both sides. While the teacher is teaching, so is the
My experience in the education system was not anything like ‘The “Banking” Concept of Education’ critiques it. It specifies on critiquing the teacher-student relationship and I would like to argue a few points made in this reading. Such as, how the teacher presents himself or herself, the relationship involving the teacher and student, and how students never discover that they also educate the teacher. I could argue these points through experiences I’ve had over my years as a student throughout the education system, I will focus on high school. I was offered Dance as a substitute for P.E. at my high school. Not only was the course amazing but the teacher was as well. She was the “teacher” but she made us (the students) feel as though she was also our equal. Completely opposite to how Friere says teachers present themselves. He says “The teacher presents (themselves) to (their) students as their necessary opposite”. Maybe in elementary school this could have been the case, considering I was somewhere between 3 to 5 decades younger than my teachers… Once, as a student, you have developed your concept of respect, so forth …show more content…
A teacher once told me “while being a teacher I’ve learnt more than while I was a student”. Yes, the teacher will narrate and be the one talking most of the time, but students are rarely patient, listening objects. Students (I’ve come in contact with) ask questions of “why?” all the time. They’re not just sitting listening, they’re thinking. Which results in more than just “the banking concept of education”. I’ve had some amazing relationships with teachers where they make the course a team building experience for both sides. While the teacher is teaching, so is the