Blog Post 6

In the Paulo Freire reading my group talked about a lot of our thoughts on our annotations of the chapter. We came up with a common conclusion on the reading, that yes the banking method of education is not necessarily productive, but it does have some benefits. We discussed how teachers just teaching to a test or for memorization is obviously bad, but in education there is always an aspect of memorization. For example, when one is teaching a history lesson a student must first memorize the facts before they can really start talking about what the facts mean to our history and present day problems.
I found interest in the quote, " In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed  by those who considered themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they considered to know nothing. Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the ideology of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry." (Freire104) From this quote, I interpreted it as Freire saying that in the banking system teachers are just throwing facts and knowledge at the student, but not really teaching them anything and allowing them to learn and discover things, but just memorize facts. Obviously, no teacher aspires to lead a classroom like this, with the banking system of education, but I think a teachers get into a rhythm over the years it is often what their teaching style turns into. I think to avoid this method of teaching, teachers just have to be conscious of the way their teaching, and as their jobs might get harder or longer that they do not phone in the way that they teach to make it easier.