Article reflection

The excerpt from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, "The Banking Concept of education" struck a side of me that I believe as a student I find difficult to express. Paulo Freire is seen as one of the world's greatest teachers because of his radical approach to the lacking education system that has been cemented into generation after  generation of young adults. He lead my interest right of the bat with one of the greatest issues in teaching which is the difference between comprehending and memorization "Narration (with the teacher as the narrator) leads the students to memorize the mechanically narrated content" (Freire 208). He outlines this concept with an example of four times four, we know it is sixteen but do we know why it is sixteen? Freire then brings up the point of going beyond the idea of education thought of in  respect of a school and a short duration of time. He explains how the lack of a good (and I mean good with respect to philosophy) education will be the demise of higher thinking and "conscious". I do not think that education in terms of K-12 will be destroyed by a ancient teaching method, It will certainly affect the minds and maybe drawback innovative thoughts, creativity and intellectual movement but to say that the entire system needs to be revised is rash and intersects his title of being too radical. When I went through basic combat training and than advanced individual training I was taught by instructors who follow the formula of teaching that Freire so passionately opposes, I still retain all the information and training to the very day. The other side of the story that Freire only touches on is the reception of information of the student. It poses a task of finding the medium of lecture and "hands on" teaching. I credit Freire because my experience (or better said "lack of")  does not allow me to righteously criticize his theories.