Similarities Between Freire And Edmundson

Authors Freire and Edmundson have very similar way of thinking. Freire believes that students question the way that they are supposed to be taught instead of having a “banking learning mindset. Edmundson believes that the way that teachers are teaching currently is not stable and that the students are really the teachers because the teachers are not doing anything to stop them from being the disobedient in the classroom.

Freire writes about how the students just sit in the classroom as “objects” while the teachers just fill their brains with power points and notes from a book that they are reading from, which can be called the banking process. Which can cause the student to believe that they are lower than the teacher and that everything that

they are saying is absolutely true and correct. So they are just becoming sponges and soaking up everything that the teacher is telling them to take in because in the students head, the teacher has a degree and apparently got hired to do this job for a reason so that they must be correct. “This method triggers the student to act as a ‘depository’ and be expected just to soak in all the information, and it causes the student to lifelessly learn (Freire, P., Para 1).” If the students and teacher actively communicate with questions back and forth with the teacher and student relationship it helps both the teacher and student understand whatever is being taught. The student has to be willing to learn and the teacher has to be willing to teach if neither one of them are actually focused or trying to help each other out then no one will get anywhere. This cannot be done with the banking concept. “Changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation of that oppresses them (Freire, P., Para 9).” Means the oppressed student must be willing to change their mentality to rise above their current situation.
Edmundson writes about the relationship with the student and the university. Most universities are not focused on what is taught to the students instead they are focused on the business part. He says that most universities take on the rich than the poor because the poor cannot afford to go even if the poor has the smarter kids than the rich, they still can’t afford it. If the universities have more rich kid “The universities become more completive when they attract the most athletic and the smartest students available (Edmundson, M., Pg. 395)”. When students find classes difficult they can choose to be taken out of that class, but when they are taken out of that class it lowers the student to professor ratio and the professor could be a liability to the business and lose their job. He also says that when the students write reviews at the end of the semester they always say that he is funny or cool, but he says that education should not be described as such. Students should not have the power to change the difficulty of the degree they are perusing.
Both authors have different but the same ideas, they both want to liberalize the oppressed but they want to get to the goal very differently. Our current education system is pretty stable, the teachers are willing to help the students and the students are willing to participate in the classrooms. Teachers are doing their part in the education system and doing all that they are allowed to do and what the student allows them to do. Freire has a characteristic theory and Edmundson has a financial and attitudinal theory. They both want to help the students peruse their degree though.