His explanation of the teacher student relationship reveals the readers assumption of his subject matter. ` In Friere’s first dichotomy of education the teacher lectures, “…about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable” which in turn loses the interest of the student. In doing this, the teacher is doing nothing for the student, but engaging in what Friere calls “the banking concept of education”. The banking concept involves direct lecture of the teacher on any topic, going over each aspect expecting the student to simply memorize rather than understand what they are learning. Thus, the teacher is making a “deposit” into the “bank” or mind of the student where the information sits accordingly.
Simon Zapata 3 January 2013 Unit One: Expository Paper Education is a general form of learning in which skills, knowledge, and habits are transferred from one person, or group of people to others; this is done by teaching, research, training, self-learning, and also experience. Many authors speak of their upbringing, and the effects education has on them. Some speak of their experiences by using anecdotes, and observations to show the effects of education. Mark Bauerlein, writer of Too Dumb for Complex texts?, criticizes modern teachers and their ways of teaching, and how it is affecting students. Authors Eudora Welty, author of One Writer’s Beginnings, speaks of her experiences with education when they she young, and the effects education
Summary of “Zen and the Art of Grade Motivation” by Liz Mandrell What if teachers decided to do away with the current grading system, and decided to go with the idea of relying on the students drive to learn? How would this change the environment of learning? Do you think that you would have the drive it took to teach yourself? According to Liz Mandrell, author of “Zen and the Art of Grade Motivation,” there must be some award from learning. There has to be some kind of system to let the students know how they are doing (383).
* Ensure that, if you do quote briefly from a book or other source, you reference the quote by using quotation marks “ “ and name the source (e.g. author and title). * Ensure that, if you have been working with others as a group, you don’t copy from others, but offer only your own work for assessment. We encourage students to collaborate but collusion to commit fraud must be avoided. * Ensure that, in practical classes, all work must be seen as ongoing by your tutor.
Instead of learning some actual useful information, teachers fret over the test rather than about how much that student is actually absorbing into their head. It has become a practice to ‘teach the test’ in today’s teaching world. Tests like SAT, ACT and AP have you pay quite a bit and don’t even show you what you did wrong, blocking out the possibility of even trying to learn from your mistakes. It is believed to be a clever tactic used to gain more profit, students keep coming back to prove they are worth more with those silly numbers. They stress day and night over these overrated tests, like previously stated channeling out the imagination, curiosity and good will.
Many educators and students do not know that this system of education is not just ineffective, but it is harmful. Paulo Freire talks about the “banking concept of education”, explaining that students in this system are “ ‘receptacles’ ” that are to be “ ‘filled’ ” with the “content of the teachers narration”. (Freire, 1) These “receptacles” are expected to regurgitate information given in class, on tests, quizzes, and anything that requires an answer that is “word for word” what the teacher says. In a banking classroom, the teacher is the authority and the
Freire believes that this concept of education is suited for oppressors, to have the overwhelming control in aiming the student to adapt to this doctrine. He opposes to this educational system and one can understand it diminishes the divergent thinking of the student. This creative, authentic thinking, that seeks to talk and communicate inside the reality being faced, is oppressed by the teachers when using only narrative, predictable, motionless and static teaching and making the students rely only on what’s being taught and deposited into their minds instead of making it interactive and discussions based class. The student loses the ability on feeding and/or expanding their critical thinking in the conscious mind; this term is called the critical
The opposite learning styles, involving listening and verbal skills, are more difficult for me. I would much rather learn how something works by using it than by listening to someone tell me how it works. When any of my teachers stand in front of the classroom and just reads form the text book. This type of teaching is my kryptonite, the words just pass right through me. To help me my learning process in class's like that i need to recreate the lectured material using my own visual tools and adapt my teacher's preferred teaching methods to my preferred learning styles.
Freire believes that through teachers, students turn important education into pure memorization, and therefore cannot utilize the full potential of the knowledge given to them. In his essay, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” he writes that in order for students to avoid being turned into receptacles of useless knowledge, they must “meekly…permit themselves to be filled by the teacher” (244). One can easily allow themselves to be “banked” on, therefore oppressing their education, or they can prevent their mind from being fed useless information, and turn the information they are learning into useful knowledge. Writer Richard Rodriguez talks about how he was always striving for more and more education in his essay, “The Achievement of Desire.” He explains he was always, “too eager, [and] too anxious,” (598) to learn more in school, and was never satisfied with the knowledge at hand. Rodriguez exemplifies that he strove to be the best he could be, and was successful based off his own hard work.
Is it not ironic then, that the very nature of teaching often makes us surrogate fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters? Students must be encouraged to do more than their best, for although it is clearly absolutist, we are all (or should be) capable of some intellectual development; achieving just enough to get by is a ‘cop-out’; we and our students should be challenged to grow. Completing my Bachelor’s