Friere's The Banking Concept Of Education: Response
The Banking Concept of Education – Response
My experience in the education system was not anything like ‘The “Banking” Concept of Education’ critiques it. It specifies on critiquing the teacher-student relationship and I would like to argue a few points made in this reading. Such as, how the teacher presents himself or herself, the relationship involving the teacher and student, and how students never discover that they also educate the teacher. I could argue these points through experiences I’ve had over my years as a student throughout the education system, I will focus on high school. I was offered Dance as a substitute for P.E. at my high school. Not only was the course amazing but the teacher was as well. She was the “teacher” but she made us (the students) feel as though she was also our equal. Completely opposite to how Friere says teachers present themselves. He says “The teacher presents (themselves) to (their) students as their necessary opposite”. Maybe in elementary school this could have been the case, considering I was somewhere between 3 to 5 decades younger than my teachers… Once, as a student, you have developed your concept of respect, so forth …show more content…
teachers realize this and forward it back. Friere states that the teacher-student “relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students).” My personal experiences with teacher-student relationships are nothing like this.
A teacher once told me “while being a teacher I’ve learnt more than while I was a student”. Yes, the teacher will narrate and be the one talking most of the time, but students are rarely patient, listening objects. Students (I’ve come in contact with) ask questions of “why?” all the time. They’re not just sitting listening, they’re thinking. Which results in more than just “the banking concept of education”. I’ve had some amazing relationships with teachers where they make the course a team building experience for both sides. While the teacher is teaching, so is the
student.
While being educated by the teacher, “the students… never discover that they educate the teacher”, is what Friere states as the circumstances of the education system. I conquer with his statement due to the fact that I’ve experienced teaching the teacher before. My Pre-Calculus 12 teacher was a very narrative guy. I asked the right questions and got him thinking about more than just what the math was, but rather, what it meant. Due to the fact that most students normally wouldn’t show interest in that idea, he never thought about teaching it more. From then on there was more showing an idea and the reason behind the math than just teaching an equation just to know an equation. Not only did he teach me math and the reasoning behind it. I assisted in teaching him a new way of presenting it.
These are my findings of the education system throughout experience. Although Friere studied the education system, the only way to really know what goes on within is to experience it. His statements may have validity with his findings, just not within mine.
My experience in the education system was not anything like ‘The “Banking” Concept of Education’ critiques it. It specifies on critiquing the teacher-student relationship and I would like to argue a few points made in this reading. Such as, how the teacher presents himself or herself, the relationship involving the teacher and student, and how students never discover that they also educate the teacher. I could argue these points through experiences I’ve had over my years as a student throughout the education system, I will focus on high school. I was offered Dance as a substitute for P.E. at my high school. Not only was the course amazing but the teacher was as well. She was the “teacher” but she made us (the students) feel as though she was also our equal. Completely opposite to how Friere says teachers present themselves. He says “The teacher presents (themselves) to (their) students as their necessary opposite”. Maybe in elementary school this could have been the case, considering I was somewhere between 3 to 5 decades younger than my teachers… Once, as a student, you have developed your concept of respect, so forth …show more content…
teachers realize this and forward it back. Friere states that the teacher-student “relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students).” My personal experiences with teacher-student relationships are nothing like this.
A teacher once told me “while being a teacher I’ve learnt more than while I was a student”. Yes, the teacher will narrate and be the one talking most of the time, but students are rarely patient, listening objects. Students (I’ve come in contact with) ask questions of “why?” all the time. They’re not just sitting listening, they’re thinking. Which results in more than just “the banking concept of education”. I’ve had some amazing relationships with teachers where they make the course a team building experience for both sides. While the teacher is teaching, so is the
student.
While being educated by the teacher, “the students… never discover that they educate the teacher”, is what Friere states as the circumstances of the education system. I conquer with his statement due to the fact that I’ve experienced teaching the teacher before. My Pre-Calculus 12 teacher was a very narrative guy. I asked the right questions and got him thinking about more than just what the math was, but rather, what it meant. Due to the fact that most students normally wouldn’t show interest in that idea, he never thought about teaching it more. From then on there was more showing an idea and the reason behind the math than just teaching an equation just to know an equation. Not only did he teach me math and the reasoning behind it. I assisted in teaching him a new way of presenting it.
These are my findings of the education system throughout experience. Although Friere studied the education system, the only way to really know what goes on within is to experience it. His statements may have validity with his findings, just not within mine.