Blog Post 6: PostIt Notes

While I was reading Chapter 8 of "Educational Foundations" I stumbled upon a very interesting section. The chapter was titled "The Banking Concept of Education" and it was written by Paulo Freire. Throughout most of the chapter the author talks about how Teachers do all the talking and get to control the whole class while the students just sit there and listen and take notes. He says things such as "the teacher teaches and the students are taught" and "the teacher thinks and the students are thought about" and finally, "the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects." There are many others but these were the one's that stuck out. Well, in my opinion I do not necessarily think the author is completely correct. In fact I think a classroom is divided equally. Now sure teachers can give detentions and they are the one's who make the rules, but usually in my past experience students were never considered just "objects." The only people who were considered "objects" by teachers were the students who did not care to be in the classroom so the teachers would have to ignore those students or even kick them out for being disruptive. Usually, that did not happen but in some cases it did. Now, you have the other kids, the kids who actually wish to gain knowledge and be in school. This group of kids should not be considered "objects" because most of the time these kids were apart of the lesson. Most of the teachers I had would not consider these students objects at all. This group was able to give input on the lecture and be heard by the teacher and the rest of the class. Students taught the teachers new stuff and instead of the teachers teaching they were actually the one's who listened and paid attention to the pupils. These kids do not deserve a special title, but they also do not deserved to be referred to as "objects."