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Over years, students have spent countless hours sitting at their desks with teachers filing their minds with information without really gaining any insight from it. This is extremely common in almost all schools, institutes and colleges around the world. It has quickly become the basic and general method of education and some individuals believe to be flawed. Paulo Friere, author of Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, criticizes the traditional way we are educated in the second chapter of of is book. He supplies insightful analysis on the student-teacher relationship along with alternative methods of teaching he believes to be more effective. Through reading the material, one can infer that a single method does not necessarily make it more effective since different subjects require different methods.
Friere states that teachers are becoming narrators of information to students resulting in students becoming depositories for information without truly understanding it. He refers to this concept as banking which makes “students record, memorize and repeat phrases without really perceiving” what it really means (Friere 2). The result of this method are inattentive, uninquisitive and docile students that rarely question authority. Friere believes in educating students in a manner that would allow students to think critically and discuss ideas rather than just spewing information to students. His solution is the concept of problem-posing which implements a two way dialogue between teacher and student, discussing ideas and subjects contrary to banking which uses an one way dialogue. Friere continues to stat problem posing allows students to discuss their thoughts making them think critically and creatively. Students are not idly listening to le...

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...ce of their peers and not the standards that are set. We should judge our students based upon strict criteria standards, such as were used in the 1960s-1980s. If your peers are already under-educated compared to the rest of the world, scaled grading will fail. The way we structure schools is also flawed. Schools are funded by local taxes for the most part, with some state and federal funding given to schools. It is hard to plead your case when you are a school in a low income neighborhood with failing students and your school needs more money. This can be solved by a well executed voucher system, in which each family receives money to send their children to a school of their choice, with lower income families and families with more children receiving vouchers. I truly believe if these issues were addressed we would see a rising trend of success in public education.

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