Have you ever been a student, and you think the teacher is just talking to hear themselves
talk? Do you feel yourself being filled with information you will never use in the “Real World”?
These questions have been asked many times and by many people. The school system in the
United States is changing from the foundation to the top. The school system has failed many
students by their teaching methods and also the textbooks students are forced to use. People such
as Paulo Freire PhD and Dr. James Loewen have observed countless hours of good teaching and
bad teaching methods. Freire observed and wrote about the different methods of teaching that are
being used, and Loewen wrote about how the textbooks are only telling us certain parts of
our history.
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire, PhD was born in Brazil on September 19, 1921 and died May
2, 1997. Paul Freire was well known for his theories on education. His most noteworthy work
was “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. In 1993 an exert essay "The Banking Concept of Learning”
appeared in continuum. This essay brings to light many ideas current students and alumni have
long known; teachers are just using the students head as receptacles for their knowledge. Freire
noted many ideas on this subject that are true. Just set back and remember your high school
classes or even your college classes. A few examples of one concept Freire named the
“narrative” concept is when the teacher teaches and the students learn, the teacher issues
discipline and the students are the recipient and the teacher confuses the knowledge with their
own professional authority, in which this limits the freedom of creativity for the students.
Teaching such as the “narrative” concept terro...
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...able learning people. The “problem-
posing” concept and practice take the students as face value, and allow a more comfortable
atmosphere for learning. Another major flaw in the educational system was identified by Dr.
James Loewen, in which he discovered a plethora of misinformation in many History textbooks
and other historical artifacts. America wake up, we have to learn the proper way to teach our
education but we also have to get our history straight before we send it out into the public.
Works Cited
“The Banking Concept of Education,” Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos Pedagogy of the
Oppressed, Paulo Freire PhD. New York: Continuum, 1993. Print
Loewen, James W. “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong.”
From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Stuart Greene, April Lidinsky. Boston: Bradford, 2012.
383-403. Print.
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