Educational Reform in America

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The United States has been teaching its students for countless years now. Today's education process in the United States is that of the banking process. Paulo Freire gives light to a new and advanced
process by which America should learn by, one that will prove to be an investment for the nations
society, and soon will.
For years now we have been learning in Americas institutions for the first eighteen to twenty-five
years of our lives. Always being taught by our teachers and professors, hoping that what they say
will give us light to a hopeful future. Students generally sit in a classroom and absorb or bank, to put it
in words of Paulo Freire, the information given or taught by the teachers. According to Paulo Freire we
take information given to us by teachers and categorize the information away for later use. Freire
contends that when knowledge is passed vertically from teacher to student in the banking concept the
knowledge is stored in the brains and cataloged away. An inefficient way to learn that holds us back
from reaching our full potential.
We, the students, never question the validity of the information. We simply understand that the
teacher is right and we take for granted what the teacher gives us. Who says that all information is
actually valid, how do we know until we, the students, actually do it. If a student reads in a text that a
certain plant when eaten tastes sweet and another tastes bitter the students are then supposed to take
for granted that what the text says and what the teacher says are correct. So how do we genuinely
recognize two different tastes? Test it out for ourselves in a group session.
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