Education is one of many things life has to offer,it's also a major stepping stone success. We need education so we don't end up on the streets or working in a fast food restaurant for the rest of our lives. But what people don't understand is that education should be so much more than knowing how to add, subtract, multiply and divide, knowing how to read and write, knowing the compounds of the elements on the periodic table. Education should be that and so much more, in school you need to learn how to be a good citizen, how to act in certain settings, all the different ways to express yourself peacefully, how to stand up for what you believe in. Education should be so much more than academics, education should also be about learning how to excel in life, but educators who use the banking method of education limit that. In freire’s The “Banking” Concept of Education he expounds on the flaw of the current education system and offers an approach that he believes can help the disorder of learning and teaching in classrooms. The flaw of the system that Freire explains is the oppressive “depositing” of information (which is where the word “banking” comes into play) from the teachers to the students. According to him the problem-posing method is a “liberating” educational practice. The “banking concept” is essentially an act that hampers the intellectual progress of the students by turning them into “receptors” and “collectors” of information that pretty much has no connection to their lives. Freire states “ implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world, not with the world or with others; the person is not a conscious being; he …show more content…
It attempts to control thinking and action..” This is also conveying the dehumanizing effect of the banking concept of