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"The Banking Concept of Education": An Essay on
Submissive Learning by Paulo Freire
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In his essay The Banking Concept of Education, author Paulo Freire asserts that modern education is widely recognized as a chance for instructors (or "oppressors," as he calls them) to fill students with information as they submissively accept it; in his vision of education, there is no reciprocal learning or sharing between teacher and student. In my years as a recipient of these clinical doses of

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prove that it is possible to create a classroom in which education does not "suffer from narration

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sickness."
The class that changed my opinion of education was a very small, intimate poetry workshop class of

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12 people. The professor, who was as highly educated as the rest of the senate faculty generally found

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