"The Banking Concept of Education" Response
The purpose of Paulo Freire's essay "The Banking' Concept of Education" is to analyze the current educational approach taken by many institutions and to provide an alternative to this approach. The essay is really criticizing the "banking" concept of education. The "banking" concept of education is the notion that the teacher is the narrator, while the student is the "container" or "receptacle" that is to be filled by the knowledge of the teacher. When the teacher is the narrator it forces the student to memorize the content that the teachers teaches. Freire believes that "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor (257)." Knowledge is then considered a gift from the teacher to the student, who is assumed to know nothing.
Freire's solution to the "banking" concept of education is what he calls "problem-posing" education. "Problem-posing" education......
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