Education Does Not Prepare Students For The World Summary

According to Freire, he feels education does not prepare students for the world. Rather, education hinders the students’ learning experience and creativity. The author criticizes how “the more [students] completely… accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is.” Instead of teaching students how to think critically, the teachers feed the students answers which is detrimental to the students’ thinking, for this only “imposes [the teachers’] thought on” the pupils. Freire believes the real way education can prepare students for the real world is through authentic thinking. In other words, authentic thinking includes students who persistently question the teacher and actively participate in the subject being taught. For those that do

These are the people who are prepared for the world, and those who merely memorize the information given to them are the ones that fall into conformity, not originality.

Based on my education experience, I agree Freire’s argument holds today. Even in the twenty-first century, teachers impose information on students as if they are robots. The students are learning information through memorization and not through application. These pupils continue to fill their minds with information that sticks within that school year; after that year, many students forget the material taught. However, this is not entirely the fault of the student but the fault of the teacher. Being a high school student, the teachers educate students like me through PowerPoint presentations and textbooks. This passive learning does not stick the information in a student’s brain for longer