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The American public education is in crisis. Students today are accustomed to teachers who stand in front of the class, write on the chalkboard, and dictate to their students the required material; students subsequently take notes and are forced to memorize the information for a later test. Paulo Freire refers to this approach to teaching as “The Banking Concept of Education,” in which teachers are the “narrating subject” and the students consequently are the “listening and patient objects” (259). Mr. Freire also testifies, that “education is suffering from narration sickness” (259). The American public education system is producing millions of narrow-minded citizens, unable of free thought. Are we becoming an educated oppressed society? Some of our teachers lean hard on “The Banking Concept of Education”. I can recall a few years back when I was an unsure freshman in high school. I decided to take an innovative class offered by our school, computer programming. I was excited to take this class due to my lack of computer exposure.
Approximate Word count = 661
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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