Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire's text creates an interesting thought about how we teach our students. In a stereotypical view, I believe education is largely viewed as the banking education model. Not necessarily because it is truly that way, or because that's how we want it, but because that is an experience many people have been through and a model that can, in a generalized view, dump the most amount of information into our students. This is wrong. While it very well may be that a teacher finds it easier to pour buckets of information into their students through endless lecture and fact-spewing, this does not guarantee the students are retaining any of it.

The problem-posing model is much more well-suited for genuinely educating students. We need to make this type of model the image people have of education rather than the banking education model. Problem-posing education better ensures the involvement of the students and makes them feel like they are a factor in their education as well as a relevant piece of the classroom. Making your students feel like an object, a depository really, does nothing to encourage students. The best you may get is a students who writes down your lecture word-for-word and memorizes it. They didn't learn on their own, they didn't acquire anything, the student simply memorized a speech. If they want to regurgitate it at an assembly or conference, that's great. But good luck applying that speech to real-world applications.