Freire's Summary

solving found in careers. Freire accounts for this student resistance through, “When their efforts to act responsibly are frustrated,when they find themselves unable to use their faculties, people suffer ...The rebellion they express as they emerge in the historical process is motivated by that desire to act effectively.” Freire is stating students respond to the ‘banking concept’ with bad behavior because they are unable to use and develop their abilities in the classroom. They attempt to suit their inabilities and release their frustration with disrespect, disengagement and with retaliating the order because that will get them attention they perhaps can't receive through help in the classroom. Student resistance connects to Freire’s claim …show more content…
No student involvement can further be represented through my experiences. It’s a tradition for the first day of school to be spent going over classroom rules and over the class syllabus. By the time I first hear of these concepts they are already statements that can’t be challenged or altered. I simply take the syllabus and I am forced to sign it. I sign away my right to make suggestions on the curriculum and rules, leaving all the decision and authorization to the teacher. Validating Freire’s claim that students are forced into classroom oppression because there is only one decision maker. Realizing that your words have no power against a teacher is devastating. One of my most stressful classes was chemistry because the teacher was not in any way easy-going, which was frustrating because there was always constant pressure having to please their needs in order to pass the class. I hated that my complaints to the principal about this teacher made no change. The word and expectations of a teacher are really valued more than the needs and preferences of the students. I was going to be with this teacher for the rest of the year and I had no choice but to accept it, proving Freire’s idea that the student has no say in a classroom and that there is one’ discipliner as I was not able to ever discipline the teacher on their …show more content…
Freire defines the banking concept of education through the following statement, “This is the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits. They do, it is true, have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the things they store. But in the last analysis, it is the people themselves who are filed away through the lack of creativity, transformation, and knowledge in this (at best) misguided system.” Freire is suggesting that the teaching system involves teachers “Filling” the students with information. This would be a teacher presenting information through communiques. While the teacher presents the information the students take in the information. Which can occur by listening, taking notes, or answering simple questions. The student, regardless of the method used to take in the information, is expected to memorize the content. Therefore, ‘learning’ becomes a repetitive process of the students taking in information and memorizing without really understanding the context and the connection it has to reality. Not understanding is really common, especially in classrooms were students are just being

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