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This 3-page paper analyzes Freire's treatise, "Banking of Education." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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they point out, means that teachers teach to the test to try to ensure that the districts will continue receiving federal funding, versus teaching students what they need to learn.
Teaching to the test, critics point out, means students learn via rote, rather than through any meaningful interaction with their professors. This
was exactly the point that education professor Paulo Freire made more than 50 years ago in his article "The Banking" Concept of Education." In this treatise, Freire likened education to
the banking system, by which the teacher "deposits" information into willing students brains, much like people deposit money into a bank (Freire 69). In such a system, he points out,
students learn and store a bunch of stuff and then are "filed away through lack of creativity, transformation and knowledge" which is important to keep the world moving (Freire 69).
Furthermore, the banking method of education tends to "negate education and knowledge," which is made up of inquiry and the understanding that the path to knowledge involves questions and answers,
rather than statements by teachers that must be taken at face value by students (Freire 70). Freire goes further, indicating that such a method of education is doing little more
than creating automatons, passive people who have a misguided sense of reality (Freire 71). Despite Freires going somewhat overboard about education
as an oppressive system that must be overthrown, his point is valid. The purpose of education is not to stuff students heads with various facts and statistics.
The issue with teaching and education, however, is that there is more than one definition to the concept. While education is defined as "the
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