Problem Posing Research Paper

We were born into the world as individuals that are destined for greatness, but instead we are regenerated by society to meet certain standards. As we grow older we aspire to be doctors, teachers, and firemen because we are taught to assimilate and think within certain limitations. There are a distinct few who stray away from this pattern and dream bigger than the common careers of society. Some of which aspire to be something more eccentric like a bike courier, flavorist, or greeting card artist. Although these children are amazingly unique, they are deemed to be unsuccessful and detached from society. There are two types of people in the world that are most easiest to influence, which are children and fools. Children are innocent and docile,

but most importantly they are the future. Unfortunately, children spend most of their time in school where their minds first begin to mold.
In school there are two types of teaching concepts that play a very significant role, one being positive and the other negative. The least effective teaching tool in modern education is the baking method concept. The banking method concept promotes the completion of objectives, enforcing memory, and passing standardized testing. In this method the student is nothing more than a container to be filled with information. The banking concept does not play a role in the nurturing of the teacher to "fill the students with the contents of his narration- contents which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that endangered them and could give them significance" (Freire 319).
The more efficient and beneficial method of teaching is problem posing, which is very so often present in the school system.

Problem posing allows the students a completely different experience than the banking concept. Freire said problem posing "allows you to say more than that a teacher once gave you freedom." Problem posing promotes actively getting students involved in discussion and creates a more comfortable learning environment. Students get a chance to interact with one another and the teacher, where as the banking concept teaches the student to memorize information. Although, the goal of banking concept is for students to gain the ability to memorize information it is not been proven evident to

work.
There is various yet reasonable reasoning as to why problem posing is not implemented nor common in the classroom. One reason being that the teachers style of teaching is not optional. Certain schools and institutions must abide by rules, regulations, and guidelines. These barriers are not necessarily created with the intentions to hurt the students, but simply because that is the way they chose to structure the given courses. However, the students do suffer due to the absence of problem posing.
Many students momentarily remember information taught to them for the purpose of taking an upcoming quiz or exam. If the banking concept goal was proven to be effective and beneficial to the student in the long term it may be considerably efficient, but it is not. there is nothing more rewarding than the freedom of speech and to be yourself, which problem posing endlessly demonstrates.
Why must we sacrifice our individuality for the purpose of education?

For many of us education is not and never was an option. children are forced into assimilation at a young age and it becomes a way of life. "Words are emptied of their concreteness and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity" (Freire 319). We were not born to be this way, nor had the option, but a lot of us continue to allow it . We further our education and allow ourselves to be stripped of our originality for the means to survive. we live in a society of dictatorship because of methods like the banking concept which are introduced to us at a young age and unavoidable to

escape.
The banking concept is a method that needs to be diminished in the school systems and problem posing needs to be greatly enforced. Once this is done and accepted the world will function more properly because we as individuals are functioning as ourselves. We will be able to articulate ourselves better and get along. We will also be more advanced, not only as a society, but most importantly as individuals. We must first learn to function as ourselves before we can function as a whole and unite.