The Banking Concept

Through Freires The Banking Concept of Education, we see the effects this concept has on its students and also we see the effects that the alternate concept, problem-posing has. The banking concept allows the students to become vessels of knowledge, not being able to learn at a creative pace. By utilise communism, seeing through how education is taught in the classroom, it is parallel to Freires banking concept. We can see that both ideas are similar and both were harmful to the human mind. charm banking poses the threat of creative growth and origin, Marxism, which applies Marxs ideas to learning in a communistic demeanor, it creates the threat of never being able to learn. The banking concept is a ease up bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those who they consider to know nothing (Freire 213). The goal of the banking concept is to deposit as much information into the students as possible.This results in lost memorization without the real understandi ng and discouragement of creative thought. They cannot think for themselves. As Marx writes, just as there are two types of learning, banking and problem-posing, he explains that society is this way also. There is the upper class and subordinate classes. They both struggle for economic and political power and the primary way the upper class keeps its power is through their beliefs and values.They are allowed to think. The subordinate classes believe they are subordinate due to the upper classes prestige and way of thinking. Like Freires banking concept, education is the way to keep students pop out and this works because the students accept all knowledge from the teacher, just like the dominant class in Marxs ideology, keeps the subordinate classes submissive. There are also things that flip Freires ideas of teaching that leave Marx at a disadvantage.This is because most submissive people will eventually fight back to get their ideas heard. So thence the banking concept has a fla w in itself. When Marx talks about the subordinate classes believing that they had to live up to the upper class, he forgot to mention that throughout time, an loaded people will figure out that they deserve better than what they are receiving. Overthrowing a government or standing up to a figure of power allows the submissive to no longer not be able to learn.They learn through facing what they had been crushed by for so long. Banking will eventually degenerate to its demise, to its students. This will then pave the way to actually learning something that is useful and can be utilized. Banking and Marx both do not realize that you cannot keep something vague out of sight, a people that can learn and live, without having to keep them subservient.