In Chapter 2 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire describes two types of education. The first one is called "the banking education." In this system of education, students memorize and repeat phrases without perceiving what they are learning. Friere is critical of this because the kids don't even know what four times four is and that's something a child should know. This is like a piggy bank theory where teachers only give out information so the students can spit it back out. Sometimes the teacher feed the students knowledge but the kids really don't learn anything. Knowledge is aquired through memorization instead of learning, this is to get the students to adapt to a passiveness where it benefits the oppressor.
Freire says that no one can be a human when one is treating another person is oppressed, like an animal (Freire, 1970/2001, p.85-86). This makes that person a monster because I feel that a human should not act like it is. If you want to be treated like a human you need to treat others the same. Treat others like you want to be treated.
The second type of education, Freire calls "problem-posing education." Here, students learn by creating solutions. They are faced with a problem and they have to come up with solutions, to get students to become conscious of the world to "utterly become free." It is important for students to solve problems that they are faced with in real life in their education because then they can learn how to stop and prevent them. When someone asks the question "why", he or she will not get cheated out of anything, including education, and he or she will not get controlled. You have to ask "why" so that you do not get controlled.
Freire says that no one can be a human when one is treating another person is oppressed, like an animal (Freire, 1970/2001, p.85-86). This makes that person a monster because I feel that a human should not act like it is. If you want to be treated like a human you need to treat others the same. Treat others like you want to be treated.
The second type of education, Freire calls "problem-posing education." Here, students learn by creating solutions. They are faced with a problem and they have to come up with solutions, to get students to become conscious of the world to "utterly become free." It is important for students to solve problems that they are faced with in real life in their education because then they can learn how to stop and prevent them. When someone asks the question "why", he or she will not get cheated out of anything, including education, and he or she will not get controlled. You have to ask "why" so that you do not get controlled.