The Right Reform: First Things First
Today students in the United States mostly encounter only one type of teaching technique, a traditional style overrun with chalkboard lectures and unenthusiastic teachers; a classroom structure which forces students to act like the receptacles Freire described in his work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Paulo Freire argues that too often education involves what he termed banking' the educator making deposits' in the pupils. Children do not express or think for themselves anymore. Currently American students function as toilets for a teacher's input.
Styles of pedagogy have changed over the past twenty years. No longer are students passive learners, regurgitating information from chalkboard lectures derived from out of date textbooks (Fullan, 4). Today's educators understand that to produce an education beneficial for life the United States must educate its children with an array of techniques mirroring life's developmental stages.......
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