Analysis Of The Banking Concept Of Education By Paulo Freire
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In “The ‘Banking” Concept of Education” Paulo Freire claims that education is suffering from a narrative illness, an illness that stems from the one way flow of education from teacher to student. The teacher’s job is to simply fill the students with his information therefore words become meaningless and alienating as they serve no other purpose to the teacher. Students develop without truly understanding what they are being taught, all that matters is that they regurgitate it at will. The more knowledge that a teacher can cram into a student the better teacher they are considered and the more submissive the student is in accepting this hollow information the better student they are. “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the