Friere

Educational Experience
A rich and illustrative incident from my educational past is an example Freire’s “banking” concept that he had on education. I was in the beginning of my sophomore in Spanish class. The teacher expected me to memorize everything and actually understand what it meant. As Freire would say, she just deposited the information into my bank and pulls it out when needed; she used the “banking” concept. One the first things I was taught was qué pasa, and I don’t remember the English translation of it. This could partly be because it was deposited not learned and after a period of time deposits are forgotten about.
The teacher would just say repeat after me, which wouldn't give the full effect of learning what she wanted us too. Then in with a week or even less what she had taught us was already forgotten. We didn’t use or discuss what was taught, so then is just discarded like it wasn’t there because of that lack of usage. If what is ...