Pedagogy Of The Oppressed By Paulo Freire

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In the essay “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” Paulo Freire argues that we need to change our education system and how the teaching system is set up. He compares what he calls “banking” which is the common teaching method we see today in which a teacher stands in the front of a class and feeds the students information and expects them to just memorize that information and problem-posing which instead encourages dialogue, creativity, and looking at the world.
Freire has an effective argument because he first states the problem, gives another option and gives a plan on how to implement the second option. Through exaggerated examples and word usage, Freire presents how strongly he is against the “banking system.” For example, he compares banking to Necrophilia, “The necrophilous person can relate to an object-a flower or a person- only if he possesses it; hence a threat to his possession is a threat to himself; if he loses possession he loses contact with the world..he loves control, and in the act of controlling he kills life” (Freire, pg 64). …show more content…
Background beliefs are separated “into beliefs about matter of fact and beliefs about values” ( Cavender, Kahane pg 16). However, sometimes these can get put together and we make our values into a matter of fact. Freire makes it appear that all students who are taught by the banking system do not think on their own or have creativity. He also makes it appear that all these students will in fact benefit from being taught with problem-posing. We cannot assume this to be the case because each student learns differently and problem-posing may not register with every student, also how would we teach subjects that do not rely on creativity and dialogue like science and

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