Blog Post 6

When reading about the "banking concept" of education, Freire defines it as when the the student extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the information given by the teachers. This raised a lot of questions and concerns for me as I read that. It made me wonder why this style of teaching ever came about, and made me question how to stop it. The "banking concept" is made so that the easier the students accept this style of teaching, the more of the student succeeds for that class. This style of learning limits the students thoughts and perspectives of what they are being asked to simply memorize for a short period of time. It does not give them any outside information and they are not able to ask questions like "why" when being taught this method. This style of teaching seems to harm the students more than help them. This is where the question comes in for how do we stop this method of teaching? There is a basic knowledge we have to give children when they are young, but as teachers we should still encourage outside thoughts and questions about what information we are teaching them. We cannot simply give them information to memorize for a test and then allow that information to become totally useless after the test. We should be teaching kids about the world and information that can help them succeed in the future. This brings up the problem of the law though. Educational laws require standards for what and how teachers should be teaching. Although teachers have to abide by these standards in order to teach, I believe there is a way to entwine the standards with a way of teaching that allows the students to think outside the box and raise unique and diverse questions about the context.