Education: A Journey: Education As A Journey

Education: a Journey Education can be very long ride that has various ups and downs, but every student have a different experience. Education contains multiple sides whether it is the teacher, or the teaching styles they teach, like banking method, or problem-posing method. No matter what teaching styles you have been taught, or what school you attend, what matter is your hard work as indicated from Malcom X, he taught us that no matter what background you come from, your hard work shall always prevail. And I am sure with all the knowledge, and the inspiration from Malcolm X, I will pass this class with flying colors.

Teachers pass by us every year or semester, some of them leaves a good influence on us, and we have a great experience with

In film “Waiting For Superman” it gives a light about how some schools are letting children go behind two or more grade levels, making them unprepared for higher level or worse, making them un prepared for life. Also you see some are even failing to keep students in schools, eventually turning into what called “ dropout factory”. These failure comes back to the teachers that are inputting knowledge into those fresh minds, as indicated in “Ch. 2 Pedagogy of the Oppressed” that there are two types of teachers, a banking method teacher, or a problem posing teacher. These two types education have major effects on students’ lives, one of them can take to higher levels of education, and the other one can lead you into one of those “Dropout Factories”. “Dropout factories” are led by banking method teachers who Paulo Freire refers to them as oppressors of knowledge, their method lack of critical thinking, and one on one teaching, it turns student into machines that lack any psychological depth whether its educational or else. On the other hand we have problem posing teachers, who encourage discussion in class, focus more on the students, to use knowledge an entity that can be shared with all students, and they use education to free minds from any limitation. But Malcolm X teaches us that no matter how hard the circumstances are, anyone can rise from the worse situations, and turn into a human rights activist that people look up. What fired Malcolm X need to was a simple letter that he didn’t want to sound illiterate in, he didn’t wanted to disappoint his idol Muhammad Elijah, thus he worked hard on his writing until he succeeded, and that shows us that no matter what school you go to, or bad teacher you have, or the bad circumstances you live in. you can always reach whatever you desire, only if you work hard for