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A 3 page essay that analyzes the educational stance of Lord Henry Wotton toward his protege, Dorian Gray, using the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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young man according to his own sensibilities and philosophy. The following examination of Lord Henrys mentoring of Dorian utilizes the perspective of educator Paulo Freire and argues that while Lord
Henry seems to support Dorians individualism, he actually undermines it by "filling" him with his own ideas and concepts. In the second chapter of his text Pedagogy of the
Oppressed, educator Freire refers to two principal philosophies of education. The first philosophy conceives of education in terms that are analogous to banking, that is, the teacher views students
as blank slates, vessels in which knowledge is "deposited" by the instructor. In other words, the rather than establishing active learning as a collaborative process, the teacher "issues communiqu?s
and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize and repeat" (Freire 58). In contrast, problem-posing education teaches students to think and to shape their own futures and learning
as it "affirms men and women as beings in the processing of becoming-as unfinished, uncompleted beings in and with a likewise unfinished reality" (Freire 84). Lord Henry initially seems
to support a problem-posing approach to education, as he says that it is wrong to try to influence another person "Because to influence a person is to give him ones
own soul," which causes the influenced person not to have his "natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions," (Wilde 18). This is definitely an anti-"banking" point of view. However,
Lord Henrys statements are deceptive, because he definitely does try to influence Dorian throughout the novel. First of all, Dorian is highly influenced by Lord Henrys speech when he
states that he believes that if "...man were to live out his life fully and completely (and he) were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought," he
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