Freire Text

After reading the Freire text, I learned that his education philosophy is based on his belief in human liberation, through the use of critical consciousness and dialogical methods of interaction between people. He didn't agree with the method of "banking" teaching, but favored more of a "problem-posing" method. A "banking" method is where teachers "deposit" knowledge, the things they know best, into student's minds. The students record, memorize, and repeat what they are taught, without truly understanding what everything really means. The people who think they are the most knowledgeable feel as if they are giving a gift of knowledge to those who know nothing. Freire did not like the "banking" concept, and preferred the "problem-posing" method. For him, this meant that teachers, as well as students, develop their own visions of the world by using their own voices, not someone else's. Education should be a practice of freedom. I agree with Freire's "problem-posing" method, because we have the right to be who we want to be and believe what we want to believe. I don't like it when people try and impose things on me that I don't believe in or don't want to belong too.