Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed was one of the most compelling education theories I have ever read. After reading it the first time my first reaction was to compare all the teachers, I had from nursery to my college years. I asked myself who among my teachers were banking method teachers and who were the problem-posing teachers. To my knowledge, only a handful of my teachers used the problem-posing approach in education. Most …showed first 75 words of 1390 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1390 total…adhere only to the problem-posing concept of education. Paulo Freire’s ideas are progressive and should be used whenever it is possible. That is what many educators do today. Teachers do not teach just the banking concept to dehumanize their students. They teach it because of circumstance. We have had several great leaders in our nation and all of them had to be taught in the banking concept of education at one time or another.