The Pros And Cons Of The Banking System Of Education

Education has been a highly debated topic for centuries and is still a major disputed topic in our country as to whom should avail and the criteria’s of educational system. We began our journey of Sociology with the question of theory and the need to theorize. we discussed extensively about the idea of the banking system of education with some personal experiences exclusively in India. Our discussion was extracted from Bell Hooks Theory as a liberatory practice from teaching to transgress and Paulo Freire pedagogy of the oppressed. Throughout the class, we were engaged in discussions from banking and investment to social reproduction. The most fascinating thing about the discussion is that a Brazilian text written decade back still has

This thought takes me back to relate these with ‘myths’ that Roland Barthes explains in his article Myths. He says that the French Society, the patriarchal and the bourgeoisie society in this case converts myths as a0’ type of language’ or a means of communication. Through myths they construct their own ethical and non-ethical standard of the society. Like, myth about toys. How toys are pre-manufactured and shaped according to the standard of the dominant class. Little or no liberty is given to a child to be innovative and creative. I believe that we are all victims of the banking system of education. In the chapter, Paulo Freire talks about the system as mythicizing reality to conceal certain facts of which explains the existing reality or cover certain facts. Through my experience, I’ve realised how the dominant society has nurtured this fact. Like toys, which are pre-modelled to children having their pre-determined role in the society. Like soldiers for a boy child and a Barbie for a girl child. Their destination is settled and cannot be questioned. A boy child is taught to be manly and a girl child to be pretty and caring. Falling which may turn you to be an outcast or an anti-social. Innovation and creativity is

She wishes to convey the meaning of education as a practice of freedom. Through the essay, one could deduct the dichotomy between theory and practice. She traces her argument to her experience as a girl child in the family and constantly adds her experience with people in her journey to promote feminism. I believe she is of the idea that consciousness is as much as important as lived experience to theorize. Hooks also says that theory could be a healing place for the artist but only when we allow ourselves to ask what it really do so and direct out theorizing towards the end. This we see when she was approached by people to do away with the ill practices that they have been following. I conclude with the idea that education and awareness plays pivotal role in theorizing.

I compared Hooks’ notion of theory to TS Eliot’s idea of emotions and feelings to that of poetry. Eliot in his essay Tradition and Individual talent talks about how a poet, or an artist stores feelings and emotions and properly unites them into a specific combination, which is the artistic product. He says that the success of the product is not because of the artistic feeling or emotions but rather the artistic process by which the product is synthesised. This complements Hooks’ idea of how an individual experience itself is not enough to analyse or theorize. But my dilemma is if we could apply the concept of poetry to that of theory in