haider anwar

In the article, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” by Paulo Friere, there are limitations of the banking system and addressing this banking system will definitely help improve the quality of education. Freire explains to the readers what the present day education system is facing right now. The banking system not only seems to occur in secondary schools, but it seems to have become the norm in every education institute including colleges and universities. Teachers and Professors present material to students which are being forced down their throat in order for the students to pass the class or exam. There is no intention of having the student actually understand what material he or she is taking in. The students are hardly able to think about it critically since the Educator seems to have everything in control and seem to present the idea of a more forced education rather than an education where one is able to freely think and criticize. For example, in college, students are bombarded with useless lecture notes and classes, especially in the science classes. Over half of the material which the students are being lectured on will never come useful in their lifetime. They don’t critically think about the material which they are taking in since it’s more of a forceful education in order to complete requirements. All that happens, is the students ear the lecture from one ear, and let it out of the other ear. There is no real long term challenge happening here other than the challenge of short crunch time memorization for a quarter or so. Therefore, the main limitations provided for the student here is, that there is no capacity for the students to critically think since they are already enforced with what they have to learn and think about. Addressing the banking system will definitely improve the education system because it will help educators, students, and the general public understand and critically think in which ways they can change the education system in order for the students to actually learn and interpret material as a challenge with critical thinking. In the end, it’ll not only help the students, but it’ll also help the educators to come out of the enforced education zone and be able to freely learn and think outside of that zone. By doing this, less discrimination is a result since there will be actual critical thinking going on instead of the memory of an enforced fact which was hardly analyzed. For example, many students are given the wrong idea of Islam today due to the fact that educators are just shoving information down their throat without having the students actually critically analyze the information. By addressing the banking system, it’ll definitely be allow students to creativity question the information they are taught and it can help reduce Islam phobia and discrimination amongst the diverse groups of people.