The Banking Concept of Education - Paulo Freire’s Essay

In Paulo Freire’s essay “The Banking Concept of Education”, he explains how students are encouraged to fit into this educational world as it is and accept it. In the past years the students have learned many thing from the teachers. The students are the ones to receive the information that the teachers teach. In other words, the information that the teachers teach in one-way, and then it’s up to for the student’s responsibility takes action and learns it their way. Each person would have the right to keep the information they from there teacher for only certain about of time.

According to Paulo Freire, he says, “The teachers know everything and the students know nothing” by that, he basically states that teachers act like if they are the depositors and students are the containers to just stay there and apprehend the information.

By studying Freire’s essay, he it made it easier for me to further analyzes the problem posing and how the banking concept led me through downfall experiences. That is why it is important to understand these two educational techniques in Friere’s essay, because you could see what kind of disappointment one of them brings and not the other. Reading the essay, “The Banking Concept of Education”, it made me realize that I can relate myself to the banking concept and the problem posing exposures I’ve had in the past when I went to school in Bolivia. I experienced the banking concept in which the author talks about is his essay, “The Banking Concept of Education”, stating that the teachers are the depositors and students are the containers which I think is a bad theory of bad education for me because I myself have a personal experience to share.

It was finally the end of my senior year and also a new beginning for me in life. As school ended, my most memorable moment I would never forget was when I moved to Bolivia with my family and I had to go to college and study my major. The only problem that sucked about living in a foreign country was that their primary language in Bolivia is Spanish instead of English. The reason why it was so difficult for me was because I didn’t speak Spanish fluently like my parents did I only knew a couple words. So when I first started school at my college I was seventeen years old at the time, I remember the hardest class for me was Spanish learning. One of the reasons why it was so hard learning in that class was because the instructor expected us to already know the basic information