Topic #2
Team: Myself
Thesis: In Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education” he often talks about how the teachers see themselves as superiors to the students. “The teacher knows everything and the students know nothing”, this often seems to be the case in education. Society has made it a point that the teacher and the student are very separate from each other. This way of thinking creates problems in the classroom. When students view teachers as there superior they may not feel inclined to listen and learn and take what they are being taught and use it. Students just want to pass the class and be done with it, so what they do is memorize. But the point of college is to learn and use what you learned in the real world. When a student is put in an environment where they feel they have a relationship with a teacher and feel they have a say in what they learn in the classroom they are bound to be more successful.
Quote #1: “The teacher’s task is to organize a process which already occurs spontaneously, to “fill” the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge.”
Quote #2: “The banking concept of education, which serves the interests of oppression, is also necrophilic.”
