Banking Education-Paulo Freire

For our previous class on February 25th, we were instructed to read chapter 8 in the Educational Foundations boo, which primarily discussed and argued against a very new and unique educational subject called "Banking Education". Now from my understanding of the reading and our intense fifty minute talk in class, banking education is seen as a negative approach of teaching students, and is highly structured upon the idea that the student sits at his desk, keeps his eyes wide open for hours, looks at the authoritative figure who feeds him and feeds him information of his liking (which could be anything, but since he is the teacher it must be something important), and then expects the student to receive the information, accept it, memorize it, prove his success in doing so, stand up and leave. When I see or hear "Banking Education" all I can say is "Another Brick in the Wall"! That song by Pink Floyd and the awesome video clip that we saw in class, shows how education is in a sense a "laboratory", feeding the minds of children with anything and everything at the same time, regulating their lives and ignoring their own personal opinion,  basically turning them into little manufactured robots that learn to do whatever they are told, respect whoever they are told to respect, and say whatever they are told to say. Students are oppressed are oppressed and need to break free. They need to go beyond taking in information and memorizing it because authority tells them to do so. They need to explore and question in order to learn properly. Paul Freire, the author, fights against this "Banking Education" notion within the educational field by promoting a bit of his own experience within the text. His Brazilian background suggests how education should not be a form of oppression but rather a form of liberation for the masses. Just as any dictatorial regime is condemned for denying people their democratic freedoms and overthrow them (as happened in Brazil), in the same way students should be able to overthrow the "Banking Concept" which oppresses and dictates their life within education.