Difference Between Banking and Problem-Posing Education. Paulo Freire, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

Banking education is a form learning\teaching where the students act as banks, and teachers, as one who make deposits. Instead of money being deposited into the banks, it is information being deposited into students. The teacher passes his/her information through lectures, homework, and lists of items to be memorized to the students. The information is expected to be stored in the brain until a given time where it is asked to be recalled, …showed first 75 words of 263 total…

…showed last 75 words of 263 total…teacher. Problem-posing education allows room for more cognitive thought process where exploration and new discovery is welcome. Finding out the truth, and unveiling reality is a relationship shared by the student and teacher. They work together to further their true knowledge instead of the teacher being the dominate possessor of knowledge. Problem-posing education focuses deeper on the expression of creativity and self realization instead of being passive and accepting life's answers from those before us.