Paulo Freire The Banking Concept Of Education

In Paulo Freire 's essay on "The Banking Concept of Education," he is a firm believer of advancement in today 's teaching. He splits the means of education into two distinct societies, the revolutionary and the oppression. Freire criticizes the current values of education, and argues to support his own, radical ideas about how he believes education should work. He compares education to the banking system and by doing so he is establishing his own methods and systems on how to make the education system better in our world today. In his essay, Freire 's arguments against the education system have been made quite clear by addressing actions that need to be made to better the future of our society.

At the beginning, he states how our current education
His idea that the students are an "empty vessel" is at the core of the banking concept where the curriculum does not take into consideration the needs of the students as libertarians, the means by which men and women deal with reality in either a critical or creative way. He makes this point because in education today the information is chosen by the educator as the "depositor" and "deposited" into the student; "the scope of action allowed the student extends only as far as receiving, filing and storing; which the students patiently receive, memorize and repeat" (319). The more a teacher does this to his students the more reality is taken away from them to learn the true meanings of life. This can be related back to Freire 's argument against the education system, because one can only memorize things for so long, after that one will lose his true purpose in the world. To go against the system of education Freire has established new methods to turn the idea of education aroundThe method of education that Freire asserts as an alternative to the banking concept is to encourage students to question and pursue the world. He calls this his "problem-posing" method on education (325). This change in focus is facilitated by a shift in the student-teacher relationship; the student learns from the teacher, and the teacher learns from the students. This is a relationship where all
Based off of the methods and concepts that Freire has come up with he would agree with this statement and how it affects our learning and growth of knowledge. He states how "one must seek to live with others in solidarity" and how one must think for themselves and not relate back to his pupils. They do this by a system of communication. An educator of any kind must think for themselves and not for their students. They need to know the true feelings of their students to see if their ways of teaching are either helping or damaging the student 's understandings of the real world. Thinking for oneself connects to reality and how memorizing what the teacher stated will only get you so far in life. To break this "banking concept" the students and the teachers need to communicate and interact with one another for the both to succeed in reality. With the help of communication society can act more librated inside the world that we live in today. According to Freire 's methods and his beliefs, communication is the key to success in both the system of education and in surviving in the world that we live in today. Freire 's methods all come to agreement with the system of