Banking Concept

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“The Banking Concept of Education”

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Banking Concept

· Teachers job is to fill the minds of students with information that is unrecognized to them. The information is concrete and abstract it’s all one sided the teachers do most of the talking and most of the time use words that mean nothing to students.
· The students record and memorizes the information but never really achieve true knowledge because they don’t know what it really means they become machines.
· Students input the data they are being taught this is how teachers know if they are doing their job.
· The banking concept of education consists of three things receiving, filling, and storing information therefore students can’t be really students.
· Knowledge is a gift given by those who consider themselves knowledgeable to those who don’t know anything. In this case the student.
· The teacher becomes superior to the students because he sees himself as a more knowledgeable person than the student because the students are more ignorant this is how he justifies his own existence.
· Then the students accept their ignorance to justify the teacher’s existence never realizing that they also educate the teacher.
· The teacher is the subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.
· Some students become passive and take knowledge without question.
· The oppressor in this case the teachers don’t like change.
· The oppressor must avoid the threat of student consciousness.
· Students must be slaves and shouldn’t be allowed to have the same thinking process as the teacher.
· The educator’s job is to regulate how the information enters the mind of the student.
· The banking concept attempts to control thinking and action, leads men to adjust to the world and inhibits their creative power.


Problem Posing

· Through dialogue the teacher of the students and the students of the teacher cease to ...