Banking Concept VS. Problem Posing

Bank Concept Education

  • Students retain information instead of understating why
  • Students “receive, memorize, and repeat” all information given to them
  • EXAMPLE:  In elementary school students just memorize the times tables but don’t really know how or why they go that answer
  • Teachers think they are all knowledgeable and students are ignorant
  • Teachers act like they are higher than students and that students wouldn’t be anywhere without them
  • Out of this comes libertarian education where both are the teachers and students. Students can learn from teachers but at the same time teachers learn from students
  • “oppression – overwhelming control – is necrophilia”
    • Necrophilia = obsession with death and corpse
    • Oppressed students student have no opinion, they are no creative so they are almost dead themselves
    • Teachers expect students to be this way

Problem Posing Education

  • Exact opposite from banking concept
  • Whatever problem is coming up the answer is always changing
  • Problem posing stimulates creativity  and true reflection
  • From this students grow, they move forward and look ahead to the future by understanding the past