Life of Pablo Friere

Based on the demands of our educational system, our society is laboured to conform to the level of education that they want us to be at. This educational distortion is beneficiary to the educators earth and the way of governing education . We are seen as merely disapproves rather than subjects and are fed lone(prenominal) facts/information that the educator only when wants us to memorize not real comprehend it or crimson ask questions or give our opinions to given facts/information. This is what makes the educator the oppressor and us the oppressed. Paulo Freires Pedogogy of the Oppressed deals with the conceit of conquest in the school system and suggests an alternative manner of education. There is an absolute need for students to Tear kill the mole (Pink Floyd) of conformity in education and demonstrate their individuality.Education in itself can be a contradiction. The instructor (oppressor), is there to educate/t each(prenominal) the student (oppressed) unless is he really? As Freire indicates Narration (with the instructor as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into containers, receptacles to be filled by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the cave in a teacher she is.The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are. (67). He as well as goes on to say Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.(67), and he refers to this as the banking system where the student goes only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits.(68).This banking system method of teaching, really is not teaching the student(oppressed), but rather they are given facts/information by the teacher(oppressor) that they do not fully netherstand, and so there really is no learning. Also the banking concept holds the student down beca use up he is told what to learn, and he is not allowed to work to his full capacity. It is because if this that the student lacks creativity, transformation, and knowledge in this (at best) misguided system.(68). If this eccentric of educational method keeps on, then there will be no change, therefore the minds will be filled with facts/information that the student will not always understand.This banking concept method of education also keeps a restraint to knowledge for the student to a certain level because it doesnt give the student initiative, motivation, and subscribe to actually go out and want to learn. In other(a) words this isnt the way to go slightly education. As Freire states This solution is not (nor can it be found in the banking concept. On the contrary, banking education maintains and scour stimulates the contradiction through the following attitudes a nd practices, which mirror oppressive society as a whole(68). They are as follows(a) the teacher teaches and the students are taught(b) the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing(c) the teacher thinks and the students are thought near(d) the teacher talks and the students listenmeekly(e) the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined(f) the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply(g) the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher(h) the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) fit to it(i) the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the liberty of the students.(j) the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.(68-69).Freire suggest that the educational system use an alternative method of teaching. He calls this problem p osing education. Freire goes on to say Those truly committed to the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings, and consciousness intent upon the world. They essential(prenominal) abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world.Problem-posing education, responding to the essence of consciousness-intentionality-rejects communiques and embodies communication.(74). Freire suggests that the students(oppressed) must break bountiful from this system of things and liberate themselves and free their minds. Problem-posing is an excellent way to break free from oppression in our educational system. Freire suggests that Indeed, problem-posing education, which breaks with the vertical patterns characteristic of education, can fulfill its function as the practice of liberty to overcome the above contradiction.(74).The oppressed, once free, expe rience their world, and as a result question it. This is where they break free from oppression and begin the journey to freedom from this restricted educational system that Freire calls banking system. Freire also mentions that Problem-posing education, as a humanist and liberating praxis, posits as fundamental that the people subjected to domination must fight for their emancipation.To that end, it enables teachers and students to become Subjects to the educational process by overcoming authoritarianism and an alienating intellectualism it also enables people to overcome their false perception of reality. The world-no extended something to be described with deceptive words-becomes the object of their transforming action by men and women which results in their humanization.(79).In other words, based on the banking concept, students are told what to learn and expected to learn it. Being told what to learn creates a necessity to rely on an authoritative figure not only in school but also in life, and reject responsibility. This is what the oppressors want, the oppressed who rely on authority and reject responsibility because that puts everyone under some form of power, and the oppressed are then prepared for the next oppressor.The educational system needfully problem-posing methods of teaching because it makes the student becomes a critical thinker, and not only that but no longer becomes an object but rather a being who can share ideas with the teacher. In that fashion of education the teacher could also learn from the student and all can give different input on a given subject. This would allow each student to break the mold and become individual thinkers who can express their knowledge in different ways.Overall the methods used for teaching are very inadequate. Instead of sexual relation the students what is to be memorized, the teachers should apply problem-posing techniques to get the students learning themselves. Once this teaching method can be applied , students shouldnt actually just rely on the facts/information given to them but rather go out and search and find out for themselves the truth and reality of all things. EveryoneIs able to share their ideas and can learn from each other.I feel that Paulo Freire does an excellent job in making us aware of the reality of things in our educational system. I agree with the fact that we should have more of the problem-posing method of teaching, because it will not only involve us and make our ideas heard but will actually expand our way of thinking.