Have You Ever Thought About What You Would Like To Learn In A Formal Education?

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Term Paper Title	Have You Ever Thought About What You Would Like To Learn In A Formal Education?
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     Have you ever thought about what you would like to learn in a formal education?  Many people would probably like to learn something different than what they actually learn.  Have you ever thought about being taught what you will need to know when you are out on your own and living your own life?  What about how to get a job?  Paulo Freire feels that students should be learning these things instead of learning facts.  Students need to learn how to learn and be able to analyze what they learn.
        Paulo Freire wrote the essay "The 'Banking' Concept of Education" which explains two different approaches to education.  One of the approaches he discusses in his essay is the "banking" concept, which is when the teacher is the authority and gives the students the information.  The students then memorize what they are told, and repeat what they were able to memorize, on a test.  The other approach is the problem posing method, which is when the teacher is not the authority, and everyone learns from each other.  This method teaches the students how to think and learn on their own.
     What does the term "education" mean?   Webster's dictionary describes education as being  "the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, and mind by formal schooling."  Many educators do not take the meaning of education into consideration while they are teaching.  "Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."(Freire 213)  Educators need to realize that there is more to education than just

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telling the students what they need to know.  Students need to be taught how to think for themselves.
     In Freire's essay he explains two different types of education that he believes to  be present in everyone's lives.  He feels the problem-posing method is a better form of education because the students learn things that will help them in the future.  In using the problem-posing method the teacher also becomes a student instead of being the authority and telling the students what they need to know.  This method also helps the students to bring out what they already know and helps them to think more openly about the things they know.  When a teacher uses the banking concept, they tell the students information that will soon be forgotten.  Usually the teachers that use the banking concept mean well but they do not realize that many of the students will not remember what they are ta...

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