Paulo Freire response

After reading Paulo Freire's The 'Banking Concept of Education, I can say with confidence that my view of the current existing model for our education system is broadened in a positive way.
His idea of The 'Banking' Concept focuses on the relationship between the educator and the student, and the importance of neutrality within the environment.

Freire's viewpoint in the article revolves around two stages of the teacher's agenda in which he prepares the lessons and later feeds them to the students, focusing merely on the concept of memorization rather than critically thinking. On page 208 of the article, Freire writes, "The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of 'capital' in the affirmation 'the capital of Para is Belem..." Freire wants the reader to recognize that there is something missing from the learning process; there is an important concept that is being skipped entirely. The concept that is being mishandled is how to understand material and know why the material is existing.

From my viewpoint as a student, the disconnection in the current learning process that teachers present is further emphasized by the altered student-teacher relationship. Freire delivers the concept of equality in the classroom and how this subject influences the methods in which youth learns, which I thoroughly enjoyed. If a teacher acts as if they are above a student, which happens a majority of the time, the students are "easily dominated" and "oppressed." I like the terms Freire uses because oppression prevents an individual from doing what they are destined to do; in this instance, a student is destined to understand material and a teacher prevents the understanding, but rather continuously feeds information while simultaneously ignoring why.

The only problem I see within Freire's logic is that, as a college student, I have had a handful of professors that are truly interested in my opinions and ideas and pursue the idea of critically thinking. Although there are few educators that have attempted to initiate this concept in my life, I have learned to appreciate the few instead of focusing on the majority that do not.