Topic selection: #2, student power
Group: Just me
Working Thesis: Freire makes clear in his essay that teachers in all circumstances are like oppressors and the students are like the oppressed. His understanding of education is that teachers can’t teach students and students need to find a way to gain their own knowledge through a different source of learning. Here at WCU students can find their power and freedom from the professors by collaborating with other students on assignments and projects through communication to truly understand what is at hand and by talking to others with different perspectives.
Quotable Sections: “Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings, and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world. They must abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world.” (P.4)
“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. It is a learning situation in which the cognizable object (far from being the end of the cognitive act) intermediates the cognitive actors—teacher on the one hand and students on the other.” (P.4)
