Paulo Freire's Essay: The Banking Method Of Education
Throughout the duration of his essay on the banking method of education, Paulo Freire makes his opinion clear on not necessarily favoring it. The banking method simply states that while students are in school, they become submissive to the teacher. In doing this, Freire says that, the teacher will make the student believe that they are ignorant and that the teacher is always right. To have a lucrative system, teachers and student both need to be open to learning off of each other. Freire writes “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor (216).” This is true in numeral areas not only in the county, but around the world. In my seventh grade year, we were to write
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But can that ever truly be? The student in my experience could’ve written his thoughts down perfectly, but would that fix the gap between the two so that they were more on the same ground about everything? I do not think that would ever truly come true. Liberation is defined as basically being socially and economically equal in a group. This can never be, simply because teachers have much more experience, knowledge, and wisdom than a student. There is no liberation between adult and child, but there can be mutual understanding. The teacher in the situation could have been more assertive with the instructions and with the student when he had not written it down. Instead she chose to be more aggressive, and in doing so she put the student down. The goal of the teacher is to make the learning space emotionally safe, and to tell a student, or anyone for that matter, that they are wrong because you don’t agree with how they do things is not a way to go about fixing the issue. Freire also talks about how there is a divide between the women and men in the educational system, saying that men are usually considered better. That can also contribute to the divide between the teacher and the student. With one gender feeling superincumbent to the other, that will put the other at a disadvantage personally thinking
But can that ever truly be? The student in my experience could’ve written his thoughts down perfectly, but would that fix the gap between the two so that they were more on the same ground about everything? I do not think that would ever truly come true. Liberation is defined as basically being socially and economically equal in a group. This can never be, simply because teachers have much more experience, knowledge, and wisdom than a student. There is no liberation between adult and child, but there can be mutual understanding. The teacher in the situation could have been more assertive with the instructions and with the student when he had not written it down. Instead she chose to be more aggressive, and in doing so she put the student down. The goal of the teacher is to make the learning space emotionally safe, and to tell a student, or anyone for that matter, that they are wrong because you don’t agree with how they do things is not a way to go about fixing the issue. Freire also talks about how there is a divide between the women and men in the educational system, saying that men are usually considered better. That can also contribute to the divide between the teacher and the student. With one gender feeling superincumbent to the other, that will put the other at a disadvantage personally thinking