Part 1: After reading about the “Banking Concept of Education‚” as described by Paulo Freire‚ I have come to the conclusion that if you really want to go knee deep into a topic‚ you cannot have the information “deposited” into you by your teacher. Freire talked an excessive amount about questioning‚ critical thinking and consideration of information when talking about forms of learning that do not include the banking concept. This did make sense because when taking in facts that you know you are
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“The “Banking” Concept of Education”: Destructive or Convstructive? After reading Paulo Friere’s essay‚ “The “Banking” Concept of Education‚” I have personally come to understand that his argument ultimately states that modern education is the chance for teacher or professors to “deposit” their knowledge into their students who submissively accept what they are taught without question. Freire believes that there is no shared knowledge between teacher and student; the path to knowledge is a one-way
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"The Achievement of Desire" Summary In Richard Rodriguez’s "The Achievement of Desire" he talks about the issues he faced a "scholarship boy." Rodriguez was constantly caught between his two lives: school and home. As he got older‚ Rodriguez had become embarrassed with his parents education and broke away from his home life to focus on his school life‚ which was more important. Eager to learn more "anything to fill the hollow within me and make me feel educated." (202) In the third grade
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Banking concept of education: My past years in high school you can say I experienced the banking concept‚ which Freire ‚ the author of “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” described as teachers making deposits while students memorize and receive the messages without a full understanding. It was my sophomore year and it was a math class. My teacher Mrs. Packer had the same lesson plan every day‚ notes then go over homework answers but even though I did not like math‚ I found the homework fairly easy because
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Education is not a privilege‚ it is a right. A privilege is an advantage or source of pleasure granted to a person‚ and it can be taken away. A right is something you are born with‚ and you will die with it. An education can not be taken away by anyone or anything‚ which is why education is a right. Freire states in “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” that “students are depositories and teachers are depositors”. Students that ask questions about why something is what it is want to learn‚ but the
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his essay? How exactly? Be specific. 4. Why does Rodriguez refer to Richard Hoggart’s story? 5. Does Rodriguez believe that a good balance can be maintained between home life and a successful educational life? 6. How does Rodriguez feel about his parents‚ and the role they have played in his life? In his essay "The Achievement of Desire‚" Richard Rodriguez writes about his experiences as a student. While writing about his education Rodriguez makes several points out of an abstract personality
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Growing up‚ people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state‚ education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said‚ in his essay‚ “The Achievement of Desire”‚ Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up‚ the life he had as a child‚ and the
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The point Wallace is trying to make is that education corrupts an individual’s ability to pay attention to what is going on inside of them. Education is good; it allows individuals to have knowledge about a certain field of study they love‚ but it becomes a problem when it intrudes onto the self and makes one feel as though their opinion means more just because they have received an education. According to Wallace‚ “learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how
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Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” A middle class Spanish boy from Sacramento‚ who calls himself the “scholarship boy”‚ overcame a whirlwind of emotions‚ decision and regrets in trying to become an educated man. He looked to his teachers as his parent figures‚ mimicking and idolizing them. To him education was imitation. He became very puzzling to his family because he wanted to change who he was by trying to cover all trace of his Spanish heritage and soon even lost his accent. He
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what the proper form of education is many different concepts come to mind. One of the most controversial concepts is known as the banking concept of education‚ in which students are required to memorize facts and later on be tested on them. Another important component of education is the relationship between the teacher and their students. Many argue on what the proper makeup of a successful educative system should consist of and whether or not the banking concept of education is a resourceful and effective
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