Topic: Topic 3
Team Selection: Amanda Regan
Thesis: In Paul Freire’s, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, he talks about how a relationship between an educator and a student enhances the knowledge and understanding of topic through the communication and styles of teaching. Here at WCU, teachers use different techniques for the understanding, and enhancement of the students’ ability to learn in order to relate to the society they grow up in.
Quotes:
- “Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into “containers,” into “receptacles” to be “filled” by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are.”
- “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits. They do, it is true, have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the things they store. But in the last analysis, it is the people themselves who are filed away through the lack of creativity, transformation, and knowledge in this (at best) misguided system. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
- “The banking concept does not admit to such partnership—and necessarily so. To resolve the teacher-student contradiction, to exchange the role of depositor, prescriber, domesticator, for the role of student among students would be to undermine the power of oppression and serve the cause of liberation.”
I think your quotes are very good to back up your thesis but you may want one more point to support it.
You have a good thesis and I think it will start a really good essay.
If these are the quotes you use in your essay, maybe shorten them and focus on key points that help prove your thesis.