banking concept of education
The Classroom Full of Containers In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” Paulo Freire strongly disagrees with the “banking” concept. He says that teachers who use this concept treat students like containers waiting to be filled up. In this paper I will share a personal experience I had with a teacher who believed strongly in the “banking” concept and why Freire would agree with me that the “banking” concept was utilized. ... She was a firm believer in, what I now know as, the “banking” concept of education. ... If you aren’t convinced that Miss Abella was a “banking” concept believer, this should be the deciding factor. ... I think that Freire would agree with me that the banking concept was ineffectively used by my teacher. ... Freire writes, “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. ... As Freire wrote, “Projecting an absolute ignorance on to others negates education and knowledge as a process of inquiry” (260). “Education” Freire writes, “must begin with the solution of the student teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students” (260). This clearly can’t be done with the ‘banking’ concept of education.