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encourages students to use their power to overcome the systematic oppression in the classroom, and to reject previous outdated techniques.West Chester students can use this inspiration to lead endless amounts of movements on campus such as boycotting classes, withholding tuition payments, and even physically block off streets on campus. Freire wants students to recognize this power they hold.
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
Positive: You have a very strong thesis with good examples that will help you throughout this writing project. Also, I like the word choices that you used and examples because I never would of thought of them.
Negative: Honestly were supposed to give each other criticism, but I don’t see anything wrong with your proposal at all. You have good examples and quotes to explain them.