Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Chapter 2 Summary

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In Chapter 2 of Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” he focuses his attention on the educational system and the problems within it. More specifically, he goes in depth comparing two specific methods of educating that are still used today; the banking method in which he believes is wrong method of educating and the problem posing method which he proposes as the more effective way of teaching and analyzes the “teacher-student relationship”.
From the very beginning Freire conveys his yearn for revolution using exaggerated examples and analogies. For instance, Freire compares education to the act of oppression and depositing. He states that teachers narrate content to students giving them no opportunity to think for themselves, only to

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