Freire's depiction of banking education, now, is definitely similar to how Mike Rose illustrated his schooling experience. Mike Rose's major point in his story was about how the teacher's, essentially, aimed to just OCCUPY the students instead of actually teaching them because the of their perceptions that these students knew nothing and were not worth teaching. "In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing."(Freire,2012) This quote definitely exemplifies just how much of the learning process is put into the hands of a teacher, which in some cases can be a bad idea. For example, in the vocational education program, Rose and his peers did not receive any quality education because the teachers did not care enough to choose to invest in the students by teaching them material they could and would need to be successful in life. And, in return, most of the students did not strive to be any better than what was expected of them as "below average", isolated, vocational ed. students which Freire seemingly touched on in his quote, "The students, alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic, accept their ignorance as justifying the teachers existence -- but unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher." (Freire, 2012). Rose and his peers essentially received education that did not appeal to and, as a result, limited their creativity and learning processes and turned them into mere "receptacles" of the school system. They became human beings who went to school only to be filled with information that was not relevant to or useful in the real world- the students realities. In my mind, problem-posing education is taking away the overbearing degree of separation between the teacher and the student in the classroom. By this I simply mean make the teacher and the student essentially "equals" as far as education, knowledge and the exchange of knowledge is concerned. I say this because at the end of the day, teachers are not some SUPER HUMAN BEINGS who know everything in the world that there is to know and that they're just there to impart all of this wisdom on students; teachers are in the classroom to learn just like we are and, in some cases they do learn from us. Problem-posing education would consist of the teachers and students consciously working together to analyze the world and the realities that they live in to make sense of the things around them. To me, humans can never stop learning because this world evolves and changes every single day but I think the major accomplishment in the learning process is when we LEARN TO LEARN TOGETHER AS EQUALS no matter the age, gender or color. We each possess knowledge that we can share with others and I think that if the education system would stop using teachers as "wardens" of a classroom and actually use them as tools of collectively learning and interacting with students that education would take a significant turn for the better.
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