Freire’s chapter two of “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is the most depressing reading I have done thus far on the aspect of banking-concept making teachers out to be the “narrators” and “oppressors” of knowledge. Reading this chapter made me furious that someone would put this out making ALL teachers look like control freaks. I agree that some teachers can be seen as dominating know it alls that only want to cram information into their students heads and treat them as if they are incompetent of knowledge. When in fact, teachers are constantly learning from their own students.
Teachers aren’t cutting off student’s creativity. They are actually pushing students to be more creative and talk about things that they are passionate about. Freire makes teachers look like they are God and students as lowly people. Our goal as educators isn’t to belittle these kids, we are here to push them to the best that they can be. If our only job was to sit in front of them and lecture on and on about our vast knowledge about the world, we would be boring the students. Especially in today’s world, students don’t learn like that anymore. I can see back in the “old days” that this is how teachers taught. Today we have standards and we rely on our students to not only learn from us, but to also learn from their fellow classmates.
Education has really taken a turn in today’s society. The standards that are in place right now are to use technology and learn from other texts so that they can make up their own responses and perspectives about the world. Our job as educators is to simply guide them so that they are ready for the “real world.” Freire does nothing but stereotype teachers as dictators and emotionless robots just trying to get through the day and oppress students so that they grow up with a pessimistic view of the world and of teachers.
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