Essay#1 Prewiting blog

Paulo Friere writes in his article that the banking concept of education is deeply flawed. He states that "education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are depositories and the teacher is the depositor." Thi s means that the student is assumed to have an empty brain, until the teacher deposits information into them to make them smarter. This is wrong because there is no room for the student to object to what the teacher is saying. In other words, the teacher is always correct. Education has been this way for years, but it is time for a change. We need a learning environment that is a level ground to which the teacher can learn from the student and vice versa. That is the concept that Friere is trying to get across in his article. To help his cause, In her book " The Age of American Unreason" , Susan Jacoby explains how America's education is in crisis. Students are becoming bored with the learning environment that is in use now. Therefore they tend to tune out whatever the teacher is telling them. This means that the teacher is not engadging the students in conversation about a topic, so they get bored and not pay attention, this leads to becoming less of an intellectual. The students aren't being challenged enough or allowed to express their own opinion about a specific topic. Jacoby writes that "critical thinking is at risk." This means that the student is encouraged to ask "why" or "how" to a question or fact, thus making them poor crititcial thinkers. They aren't allowed to think outside the box. This is this way because of the way the educational system is set up. The teachers are at fault when it comes to this because they are responsible for teaching students the fundamentals of life and critical thinking is one of them.