Summary Of Banking Concept Of Education

“Banking Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire underlines the theme of miscommunication between students and the teacher. A lot of the passage is biased by the author, pointing fingers at both the student and teacher. The passage repetitively emphasizes that though teachers spout out important information, rather than learning the material, students purely memorize and then forget it instead. This fault is called the banking concept, which is contradictory to the point of education due to the give and take factor of students borrowing information but not utilizing it. Paulo Freire suggests the solution of problem-posing, meaning rather than seeing teachers as an authority who knows everything, the community should work together in striving for intellectualism.
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For example, my high school offered different science classes that did not correlate. Freshman year required biology, sophomore year I took chemistry, and senior year I took physics. While being in those classes, I know I “learned” a lot because I got A’s in all of them. However, if you were to ask me basic questions today about the science classes, I would not be able to answer the basic California state standards questions that they require we learn because I memorized facts, rather than translating it into knowledge.
Though I don’t know a lot about the educational state standards, I remember taking STAR Tests (Standardized Testing and Reporting) throughout elementary school, middle school, and part of high school. These tests strictly