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    Paulo Freire argues that traditional education follows a "banking" concept where teachers deposit knowledge into passive students, discouraging critical thinking. This system allows oppression by forcing students to accept the perspectives of authorities. Freire advocates for dialogue and communication between teachers and students to promote shared learning and critical thinking. When education involves genuine communication and understanding between different views, it establishes trust and prevents the domination of any one perspective.

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    Paulo Freire argues that traditional education follows a "banking" concept where teachers deposit knowledge into passive students, discouraging critical thinking. This system allows oppression by forcing students to accept the perspectives of authorities. Freire advocates for dialogue and communication between teachers and students to promote shared learning and critical thinking. When education involves genuine communication and understanding between different views, it establishes trust and prevents the domination of any one perspective.

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    Paulo Freire argues that traditional education follows a "banking" concept where teachers deposit knowledge into passive students, discouraging critical thinking. This system allows oppression by forcing students to accept the perspectives of authorities. Freire advocates for dialogue and communication between teachers and students to promote shared learning and critical thinking. When education involves genuine communication and understanding between different views, it establishes trust and prevents the domination of any one perspective.

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    Review of Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    by Paulo Freire
    According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, pedagogy means the
    art, science, or profession of teaching. On the other hand, oppress means
    to crush or burden by abuse of power or authority. This book of Paulo
    Freire exposes how oppression is currently happening to our daily lives,
    without us even being conscious of it.
    I was convinced by Paulo Freires statement that our current education
    follows that of the banking concept. It is the act of depositing of the
    teacher to his/her students, and making the students believe that what their
    teachers say is correct. It is the forcing of knowledge to be memorized, for
    students to follow anything their teacher tells them to do. As a result, the
    students can be compared to robots. They tend to lack creativity, knowledge,
    and transformation through this process. Knowledge can only be attained
    through invention and re-invention, but how can students attain this if there
    is an invisible rule that they should follow every order their teacher tells
    them? This invisible rule allows the students to adapt to the banking concept
    of teaching, making them weak against oppression. As long as the students
    adapt to the system, the easier they can be dominated. The banking concept
    discourages students to express themselves, to explore, and to figure out
    themselves. They are forced to accept what the school is teaching, even
    though they dont want to. In my experience, there were times when I was

    in high school that I proved my teacher wrong, but then she didnt accept
    her mistake and made me look disrespectful in front of our class. Her answer
    prevailed during that time, only to be found out that I was really correct. I
    hate how mighty some teachers think they are. I believe that they exist in
    order to help us students grow intellectually, and not to stump our growth by
    forcing us to believe and memorize things which are correct for them, but
    not for the world. I experienced education which negates thinking. We
    werent encouraged to think, but instead, to memorize only. And in order to
    change this system, communication is vital. The teaching process must not
    be one-way, but be responsive or two-way. The teacher should learn from
    the student, and the student must learn from the teacher. They should
    communicate with each other, which results to thinking, invention, and
    expression.

    This,

    when

    gathered,

    results

    to

    knowledge.

    Through

    communication and sharing of experiences, both the teacher and student


    experience the reality of the world, and not the written facts about it. Both
    of them arent forced to adapt to a certain system, but instead, they explore
    different worlds and experiences, making their beliefs and principles tough,
    resulting to them being strong against dominance and oppression. When our
    education allows genuine communication, people wont allow themselves to
    be taken over by any kind of system.
    Dialogue is an act of creation. It exists due to profound love for the
    world and for the people, humility, hope, critical thinking, and intense faith

    in humankind. In return, it establishes trust. Without dialogue, there is no


    communication, and without communication there can be no true education.
    The dialogical character of education practices freedom among a society.
    Communication involves thinking before speaking. In the case of educators
    and politicians, they should dialogue with the people with their view and the
    audiences view, and not only about theirs. In order to communicate
    effectively, they should understand their audiences situation and reality, and
    relate to them in order for the audience to understand their dialogue.
    The important thing is for people to think that they are their own
    masters of thinking by merging the views of the world, their own
    suggestions, and of their community. I believe that oppression can be killed
    if people learn to co-exist with each other and learn from one another.

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