Liberating Education
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Upon reading both essays on the approach to education one can ascertain the commonality of both authors' message as one being a call for a change in the status quo in educating. Both feel that their must be some type of exchange between teacher and student and student and teacher to stimulate creativity to inspire true education or as Friere puts it "Liberating Education".
Friere goes on to describe 2 approaches to education, the "Banking Approach" and the "Liberating Approach". To put simply, the banking approach, according to Friere, is an authoritarian approach between teacher and student in which the student acts only as a receiving agent of the teacher's deposit. This means of exchange is described strictly as one way. The liberating approach, which Friere advocates, consists solely on the process of perceiving a problem collectively between teacher and student. The means of exchange intended in this approach is a smooth flow of information and ideas between teacher and student to culminate in a common goal to solve a common problem.
My argument against Friere's essay is that the banking and liberalization approach to education are both analyzed only at their extreme poles. Either one or the other can stand true. Both approaches viewed in this manner can only be wrong...