Kyle Owens
Topic 2: student power
Thesis: Freire encourages students to use their power to overcome the systematic oppression in the classroom, and to reject previous outdated techniques.
Quote 1: “The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the students’ creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed.” pg2
Quote 2: “Based on a mechanistic, static, naturalistic, spatialized view of consciousness, it transforms students into receiving objects. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads women and men to adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power.” pg3
Quote 3: “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.” pg4