Paulo Freire's The Banking Concept Of Education

Summary of Paulo Freire’s, “The Banking Concept of Education” In Paulo Freire’s essay, “The Banking Concept of Education”, we learn a great deal of the banking concept of Education and. It is with that, that we will analysis Mr. Feire’s essay. Mr. Freire enlightens his readers by comparing the relationship between the teacher and student. As the relationships are compared, we discovered what the banking of concept means. Through this, the reader will learn the dynamics of each role. The central message of Mr. Freire’s essay can be interpreted that, there is much more to education than obtaining the material that a student is taught. Mr. Freire also informs us of the other aspects to education. He concludes his essay with the importance of communication. Through analogies and descriptions, Mr. Friere provides us the reasoning. Early in the essay, Mr. Freire, explains to us, the readers, what the relationship between the teacher and student is. Teachers and students have this mechanical type relationship with no emotion or thought. In his statement, ‘The contents,
With the roles, there are actions that they exude. However, alone with the roles and actions, Mr. Freire informs us the importance of communication. The essay concludes with communication and how although students and teachers go through the motions of education and the banking concept of education. It is then do we realize that what the student learns and what the teacher teaches is validated by the means of communication. “Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning. The teacher’s thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students’ thinking. The teacher cannot think for his students, nor can he impose his thought on them. Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication” (qtd. in Freire