Banking Concept Of Education Essay

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The “banking concept of education” is unbreakable. The school’s system method of teaching is what I and others have experienced and that similar to Freire’s idea, that the teacher’s task is to “fill” the students by depositing information to which the teacher considers real knowledge. I can agree that the idea the Freire explain is really real. From personal experience throughout attending school, I have seen this, question it, and allowed it to be this way towards me because going against a teacher’s way of teaching can affect me by not “passing” the material, since I “did not learn”. If there’s a system like that, there’s another way that can extend a student’s capacity of learning, called problem-posing education.
The student listens, the student passes, is in a way accurate. The teacher has the power over a …show more content…

I see it different from others I believe, and anyone can disagree with me, but I noticed that if you can’t connect with what your professor says, then are really feeling that connection between both of you? The one that helps extends a student’s learning. If banking of education isn’t real, then why does cramming exists and it’s a common behavior among students. Cramming only allows to memorize the important terms before an exam, meaning that they know the professor will add with what was taught to them, but do you really have a connection to what you have just learned throughout the quarter or studied for? Not really, whatever you crammed for is what the professor deposit into you, and after the exam your chances of remembering the material later is low. I noticed after really understanding and sharing your thinking with your professor and not them talking to you and you just take note after note, but them really having that “connection” with you, I tend to learn more, and see its importance, and I feel more confident before an