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My Experience of Banking Concept

I am at this stage in my life, a freshman in college. This means that I have successfully completed twelve years of schooling. When I sit and think about it, I realize that it is not so hard for me to come up with an incident in which I was a victim of banking education. Banking education is a theory of Paulo Freire who was one of the most influential educators of our world. His theory stated that education is suffering from narration sickness. As a matter of fact, I’m sure that there have been numerous incidences in my schooling that involved this theory because I know that I had many teachers that followed this principle. I don’t really know if I should call “banking education” a principle or just a way of life. I sure hope it isn’t a way of life, but in my experiences I really can’t come up with a reason why it isn’t.
I can remember in 11th grade not that many years ago that I had a very typical American History class. My role as the student in this class was to ...

Posted by: Melissa T. Littlefield

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