Problem Posing Research Paper

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We were born into the world as individuals that are destined for greatness, but instead we are regenerated by society to meet certain standards. As we grow older we aspire to be doctors, teachers, and firemen because we are taught to assimilate and think within certain limitations. There are a distinct few who stray away from this pattern and dream bigger than the common careers of society. Some of which aspire to be something more eccentric like a bike courier, flavorist, or greeting card artist. Although these children are amazingly unique, they are deemed to be unsuccessful and detached from society. There are two types of people in the world that are most easiest to influence, which are children and fools. Children are innocent and docile, …show more content…

Problem posing allows the students a completely different experience than the banking concept. Freire said problem posing "allows you to say more than that a teacher once gave you freedom." Problem posing promotes actively getting students involved in discussion and creates a more comfortable learning environment. Students get a chance to interact with one another and the teacher, where as the banking concept teaches the student to memorize information. Although, the goal of banking concept is for students to gain the ability to memorize information it is not been proven evident to …show more content…

For many of us education is not and never was an option. children are forced into assimilation at a young age and it becomes a way of life. "Words are emptied of their concreteness and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity" (Freire 319). We were not born to be this way, nor had the option, but a lot of us continue to allow it . We further our education and allow ourselves to be stripped of our originality for the means to survive. we live in a society of dictatorship because of methods like the banking concept which are introduced to us at a young age and unavoidable to

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