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As we grow up, we know that Education is the most important part of our life. We learn everything the day we born from our parents, after that from our teacher. We learn a lot of things from parents and teacher. Parents teach us about the culture, society and daily life; teacher teach us how to think creative or learn new things. Once Nelson Mandela said about education is “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. He means by that quote is human can control the whole world by education. The knowledge could be change by the impact on teaching method. There is a book which is “Banking Concept of Education” written by Paulo Freire. His book is based on the banking education and problem posing education. The point of this book is the author shows compare with students and teacher. Also, he demonstrates against the teaching method of students and teacher. For that, the author talks about the Banking concept education and problem-posing education for the reader to grab their attentions about education.

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This is a method of education where students can be benefit in terms of gaining their critical thinking skills. This education help to develop individuals own opinion. “Problem-posing education enables teacher and students to become subjects of the educational process by overcoming authoritarianism and an alienating intellectualism” (253-254). This mean that teacher and students both research about a topic or discover knowledge with each other’s. Problem- posing is the best outcome from a student and teacher because students can use their knowledge to think critically and teacher can pursuit them to think more critically with lot of problems. By this it can be beneficial for both teacher and students because they both having better understanding with a concept and both learning from each

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