Lord Brougham:
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Paulo Freire:
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
This last quote below just made me laugh - actually a near spit-take of my coffee. Being around teachers a lot, I'm always hearing/seeing two different views on education. The first are the new teachers, full of passion, ideas and hope. Then, there are the jaded ones! The ones that you secretly wish would just retire.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Please, share your thoughts.
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What educational practices do you think make the differences in the two kinds of education Friere talks about?
Well, the main theme in that quote is my old favorite - transformational learning! However according to Merriam, Freire believes that "personal empowerment and social transformation are inseparable processes." He talked about two kinds of education, banking education and problem-posing education.
Banking education is teacher-focused with all the info and knowledge resting with the teacher with no engagement or empowerement with the students. This model would fit with the first part of the quote.
Problem-posing education is more aligned with the second part of the quote, as this is liberation. There is dialogue, partnership between student and teacher.
I read this passage in the book for our last course and it went right over my head at the time. Now it all makes sense!
Exactly! Have you extended your thinking to how these two are and alternatively could be used in your kids' schools? What would the effect be?
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