The ineffectiveness of the "the banking system"

    Most students experience many different types of teachers throughout their lives. Some teachers are very involved and care about each individual student’s success while others will teach as a job, only doing the bare minimum. I agree with the banking system of education since teachers would go through the same process of giving out classwork, and then homework. After a few weeks of this process, we would have a test to assess what we learned. The process is meant to build up a deposit of information only for it to be lost in the next lesson. There was one teacher who was unapologetic when displaying his laziness. The quote “the more they completely accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is..” perfectly expresses that (Freire 2). My science teacher in 7th grade never taught any lessons himself. He would assign us vocabulary words, and then give us a packet that would take a week to finish. Finally, he would end the lesson with an even longer project or test we have to study for. Unsurprisingly I learned nothing from that class because there was never that student-teacher connection that Paulo Freire talks about. Freire talks about how this banking system benefits the “purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world of oppressors have created” (Freire 4). The system of teaching done by that science teacher felt like it was readying us to be cogs in a big machine and aimed to get us used to that system. Since he would rarely teach, I very quickly got used to the system of walking into class and immediately taking a packet out and working on it. Rarely would the teacher actually stand up in front of the class and teach.