Sarah Veneziale, Gabby L, Sabrina, Kyle O, Timothy D, Rabi, Christian G
Paulo Freire portrayed the idea that students are containers, being filled with whatever the teacher chooses to teach them. The teacher knows everything, and the students know nothing. In our discussion today, we disagreed with this statement. We talked about how most teachers we had didn’t treat us as nothing. Most teachers actually allowed themselves to be corrected by the students. However, there are teachers that some had that would not accept being corrected. We also discussed that teachers will benefit if they allow the students to also teach. No one knows everything, so this idea needs to be taught instead of having authoritative figures treating others as if they are nothing. We also discussed how individuals cannot be human if they aren’t taught to be creative and have their own thoughts. The last thing we all agreed on was that this concept is older, because we all have not felt the exact way Freire describes the students should feel. He writes that students feel that they are slaves and never recognize that they can educate the teacher, but this is not something I have experienced.
