Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Like slaves, students are forced to do as their oppressor or teacher demands. The concepts of student and teacher oppression are introduced on the first day that education begins. Students are given a set of "class rules" for each class, and everyone except the teacher must follow them. Teachers have total control and the students must give in to their demands. Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" deals with the concept …

…the banking system. Instead of telling the students what is to be memorized, the teachers should apply problem-posing techniques to get the students learning for themselves. In that style of education the teacher could also learn from the students and everyone receives different input on a given subject, rather than just having one person's facts. This would allow each student to break the mold and become individual thinkers who express their knowledge in different ways.