Communication between Teacher and Student Gives Life Meaning
Paulo Freire, an educator and philosopher born and raised in Brazil, believed conversation between a teacher and student is becoming too routine, not flowing and most times it is one way, meaning the teacher speaks and the student listens. A teacher’s task is to fill the students with contents of HIS narration. Freire observes that “Education is suffering from narration sickness” (Freire para 1). Words have no meaning and students are nothing more than receptacles, containers that are to be filled with useless and empty words. Teachers seem to have a quota to reach so the more he fills the container the better teacher he is, or appears to be, while the student patiently takes what is given, making the meek student the better student.
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Teacher-student relations are the key to education. He states “Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction…” (Freire para 7). If teachers would allow students to inquire and interact, the opposition between the two will fade allowing real education to take place and grow.
However, the more students willingly accept what is taught, the more they will adapt to the world. If students just sit back and focus on storing the information given to them, they will never be able to develop the skills necessary to change the world. Freire argues that “the more completely they [students] accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is…” (Freire para