Sheltered under a tall roof made of dried nipa leaves and bamboo walls, A man in his 30’s with eyes that look as though it was old and swollen fingers with cuts earned from working till day and night is carefully wielding his treasured craft in front of his two children who are watching every intricate movement as if it were a dance because in the back of their minds they know they would become their father’s successors. As early as the pre-colonial time, Filipino children were already taught by their parents in an informal method, here they learned vocational skills and less academics. The colonization of the Spanish brought a new system of education. Education became religion-oriented and was inadequate, suppressed, and controlled by the friars. This seemingly unopposed structure of authoritarian education would go on until the American and Japanese colonization.
And not much has changed since; we still have the same state of education only worse. The teacher to student ratio can reach up to 1: 100. Students are crammed into small classrooms with neither inadequate ventilation nor seating. Teaching methods employed have been the same for almost a hundred years, the system which Freire calls as the “banking” concept of education. Freire sought to overturn…show more content… The Freirean ideology is meant to respect and include the oppressed, empowering them to seek social justice for themselves and others. Freire’s ideas are considered dangerous, and largely ignored in the United States, because they question authority. Freire’s book is an instrument for consciousness-raising, which will lead to change in institutions so by U.S. standards, Freire is a radical revolutionary. After publishing this book Freire was sent to jail for he urged his fellow Brazilian to question their system of education and ultimately
