The Banking Concept of Education – Paulo Freire’s EssayIn Paulo Freire’s essay “The Banking Concept of Education”, he explains how students are encouraged to fit into this educational world as it is and accept it. In the past years the students have learned many thing from the teachers. The students are the ones to receive the information that the teachers teach. In other words, the information that the teachers teach in one-way, and then it’s up to for the student’s responsibility takes action and learns it their way. Each person would have the right to keep the information they from there teacher for only certain about of time.
According to Paulo Freire, he says, “The teachers know everything and the students know nothing” by that, he basically states that teachers act like if they are the depositors and students are the containers to just stay there and apprehend the information.
By studying Freire’s essay, he it made it easier for me to further analyzes the problem posing and how the banking concept led me through downfall experiences. That is why it is important to understand these two educational techniques in Friere’s essay, because you could see what kind of disappointment one of them brings and not the other. Reading the essay, “The Banking Concept of Education”, it made me realize that I can relate myself to the banking concept and the problem posing exposures I’ve had in the past when I went to school in Bolivia. I experienced the banking concept in which the author talks about is his essay, “The Banking Concept of Education”, stating that the teachers are the depositors and students are the containers which I think is a bad theory of bad education for me because I myself have a personal experience to share.
It was finally the end of my senior year and also a new beginning for me in life. As school ended, my most memorable moment I would never forget was when I moved to Bolivia with my family and I had to go to college and study my major. The only problem that sucked about living in a foreign country was that their primary language in Bolivia is Spanish instead of English. The reason why it was so difficult for me was because I didn’t speak Spanish fluently like my parents did I only knew a couple words. So when I first started school at my college I was seventeen years old at the time, I remember the hardest class for me was Spanish learning. One of the reasons why it was so hard learning in that class was because the instructor expected us to already know the basic information
It turned out I didn’t have the time or the energy to learn Spanish in Bolivia. Being in English didn’t allow that. The problem was that I didn’t use Spanish in a classroom, rather it was by accident and that made it a lot harder than it should have been. After my first class it was my last time in a classroom and it really made me mad because I didn’t know how to read or write that I had always learned when in Colombia I had always been able to read by thinking of words only by thinking about the noun. That made learning Spanish a lot more difficult and it led me to want to learn more languages as well. I didn’t like Spanish so much and in my mind, learning to learn Spanish made it really hard to have it. Learning to speak Spanish and learning to understand a language with different verbs was a little daunting and I needed to have a very short memory to complete those sentences, like in Spanish I have to translate things, but I had no trouble with this because in my first class it was just me and there were only one person who understood my words better than me and I was a student that we would go to class with and then every time we would get to class everyone else would just explain their problems with the Spanish. That gave me quite a bit of weight to carry as much as a lot of people in the class did. However, that was not for lack of attempt since it was just impossible to communicate the same things both ways. I was taught every thing they could in the class that I was taught, I wasn’t sure that I would ever understand any of those things so when one person said to me “You think that you understand everything you have to understand? That is impossible. You must understand all of the words in your brain with as little effort as possible.” but it still only meant that they were saying things they had to not do otherwise they would not understand them. Well, it happened the other year with this class too and we really were learning how to speak English and because of this they were teaching us Spanish too. Nowadays I use that time to practice what I had done and if you’re a big student there is no other option but to practice and get better. It really was a very tough time for me. It didn’t make any progress in my education but it made me think about how to build a strong and strong society but when I was 19, my dad did a speech for me at a college. At some point that was enough to get me to speak at an awards and that really made me want to move to Bolivia. Nowadays I am really excited about Bolivia and I don’t need anything for my dream to turn into reality. I just hope that someone is lucky enough to reach my dream of getting to my high school graduation and I hope that my dreams come true soon. If not, then I hope that this article is only part of the story and that I can help others to achieve similar dreams and achieve similar