Pedagogy of the Opressed
Paulo Freire
-Teacher and Philosopher
-Creator of the banking model of education
The Banking Model of Education
-Teachers as depositors
-This being the only relationship between students and teachers
-"A one way street"
What does this mean?
-Is this a good structure?
Paulo's Take
-Everything for the sake of a good grade
-Limits divergent thinking
-What do you remember having memorized that you no longer know now?
Oppressors and the Oppressed
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The teacher teaches and the students are taught;
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The teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;
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The teacher thinks and the students are thought about;
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The teacher talks and the students listen—meekly;
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The teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;
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The teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students
comply;
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The teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting
through the action of the teacher;
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The teacher chooses the program content, and the students
(who were not consulted) adapt to it;
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The teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or
her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;
10. The teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.