Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Banking Concept of Education

Here's my opinion in this topic(as it always is with my blog haha) but I just feel like there is too much of a AP between what is considered to be republican, libertarian, and democratic policies. In all honesty none of the parties or ideologies work completely alone. We need them all to make a society function properly. Though Freire makes some valid points about how the classroom should work. No teachers should not feel as though they know all and students know nothing. Yes the classes should have some solidarity to them but how can the pupils learn how society works if there is no structure within the class. In all honesty I feel as though the change should start in the both directions. That is to say that the change should come within the classrooms as well as the offices. If society continues to run the way that it is all the newly educated people will only come off as barbarians with their efforts to change. You see the minority has had power since the beginning of time and no one has noticed that there is power in numbers except in a few places in time, American Revolution, French Revolution, Apartheid in Africa, and other revolutions. Yet with all these successful rebellions no one has yet make this idea concrete and solid and we have had disasters like the Holocaust where 13 million people were killed by the minority. In the instance of the Holocaust the Banking Concept was in fact used. It was used so well with propaganda that it not only convinced people that Jews were bad but it brain washed thousands of people. In a sense the banking concept may not be all bad but it can be used for bad. There needs to be a structure in where there is an authority figure that takes into consideration the ideas and creativity of an individual. Such as the way society should be.

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  1. I am interested in what you mean by the banking concept used in the Holocaust. . .do you mean that 'the banking concept' is used to perpetuate propaganda (in this case, Nazi propaganda).

    I think that your claim that "there needs to be a structure in where there is an authority figure that takes into consideration the ideas and creativity of an individual" is interesting. while teachers are the "authority," I think it is important to realize that in the *real* world, there is no such authority figure--one must make judgments for oneself. So, if the teacher can teach to critical engage and think about questions, then hopefully you can become your own authority.

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