Education in Evolution: from Freire’s Bank Clerk to Problem Poser

Our enactment as students is an evolution of experiences of continuous flavours take exceptions and disasters. In our childhood, we treat our p argonnts the front instructors. In the process of gro get alongg and maturing, we join the educational orbit going to educate at the same time that we are introduced to the school of life. As scholars, we perplex experienced Freires two educational methods bank-clerk and difficulty-posing.It is neat that the educator would decide what method to employ, however, at the end, most of us, including the students depicted in ancient and modern literature, would choose to be critical thinkers and exhibit Freires Emerging Consciousness, opening the door to creativity, critical and a basal short-changeing process. Usually, the beginning of our education starts at home our parents are the first ones who teach us how to be deem with manners and cultural customs. The education that we genuine at home so-and-so be variant for everybody a nd the reason is divers(prenominal) cultures, languages, and religion.The focusing our parents and families teach us can be defined as spinal fusion of bank clerk and problem posing methods, the parents are the teachers and we are the students, sometimes the parents use the banking concept, they blabber and give commands and the students on the nose listen and exact the commands. As Freire declares Education thus creates an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.This is the banking concept of education, in which the scope of save allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits (Freire 72). Freire tells us that using banking education, the parents be come down narrators and the children just containers to be filled with the parents knowledge. Pedag ogy of the Oppressed emphasizes that communication betwixt parents and children, doesnt exist in a banking education. Banking education means downsizing and by suppression, children are limited to extend their apprehending process by being filled by the parents ideas.But do the parents realize that using a bank-clerk method minimizes or annuls their childrens creative power? Some parents do non realize it, they become oppressors and their children the oppressed. They consider their children inexperienced and ignorant. The parents think that their children have to learn what they teach them with unwrap asking or questioning anything, this way they would be integrated into the society accepting the passive role imposed on them. Strepsiades can be a good example of a induce using banking education. Strepsiades wants his son to join the Thinkery to learn the two logics to save him from his debts.In the beginning, Pheidippides does not want to join the Thinkery because he believes t hat people from the Thinkery are crazy and what is taught is a fraud. Finally, Strepsiades persuades Pheidippides and he joins the Thinkery. Strepsiades claims So tutor him in your two logics traditional philosophical Logic and that flashy modern sophistic logic they call illegal because its so wonderfully wicked. In any case, if he cant master both logics, I insist that he learn the Immoral Kind of argument (The Clouds 66). Strepsiades does not question Socrates methods, he tells Socrates to guide his son as his student and teach him the two logics.Stresiades does not maintenance whatever it would take for Pheidippides to learn the two logics. Stresiades sees Pheidippides just as cock that would server the purpose of avoiding to pay his debts. Pheidippides is the oppressed and he can not question or criticize any method that they would use in the Thinkery to teach him the two logics. However, other parents wish well mine, using a coalition of both educational methods, sometim es talk in a compulsory way and nothing is negotiable as Colonel Graff, the head of the date school, does with Ender.Occasionally, my parents talk to me as a friend in a rational way, share- fall taboo their experiences and exposing their problems. As equal tender-hearted beings, we grip the communication between teacher and student in the process of learning from each other we breach Freires appear brain. We do not see parents just as an authority, we see them as friends, in concert, through dialogue, critical criteria, and creativity we train a problem-posing education.In Enders case, he is the third child of the Wiggins family he knows that he could not stay with his biological parents, his instincts push him toward new experiences and the stripping of new things. He leaves his parents in an early age to join a appointment school. Beginning on that day, Colonel Graff acts as Enders aim at the school and Enders life would not be the same again. the likes of Ender, I fel t the same attraction when I first coupled culinary school at age of 13, leaving my family far international to experience one of the biggest challenges in my life.I would be whole in a place where everything and everybody was unknown to me. This life experience was a vital differentiate of my educational journey. As Freire believes Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the sphere and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obligated to respond to that challenge (Freire 81). Freire thinks that when we find challenges in our life, that relate to ourselves, we develop the power to perceive critically the way of our existence in the world and in which we find ourselves go teachers-students and students-teachers.Graff enforces banking education on Ender, manipulating, insulate, and limiting his existence in the school. Graff believes We could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But public doesnt want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining a straining and, at last, every some generations, giving birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire. (Enders gritty 35). Graff explains to Ender why they chose him to join the battle school.He tells Ender that they expect him to be a hero and save humanity. As a tutor and teacher. Graff, being a bank-clerk, pushes Ender to his limits, but Enders reaction is different, the to a greater extent they challenge and isolate him the to a greater extent he awakes his emerging consciousness. Ender soon becomes the best strategist and leader of the battle school. On the other hand, Pecolas story is totally different from Enders. Pecola bears the tap for the sins, crimes, mistakes or misfortunes of her parents, she suffers abuses from her parents, and people at the school raze the cashier from the market s tore that sees through her.She is treated as a marginal person who does not fit in to white peoples mass of what beauty means for society. For Pecola, beauty means to have blue eyes. Pecola feels As long as she looked the way she did, as long as she was ugly, she would have to stay with these people. Somehow she belonged to them. Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, nerve-racking to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or contemn at school, by teachers and classmates alike. She was the only member of her class who sat alone at a double desk. The blues eye 45). Pecola does not like the world of isolation and oblivion where she lives. She associates black with ugliness. She tries to find an answer to why people ignore and despised her at the school and at home. She thinks that the solution for all her problems is to get blue eyes, and for her blue eyes are alike of acceptance and beauty. Unfortunately Pecolas experiences at the school are not pleasant, fortunately, we join the educational world going to the school, and enjoying the adbantanges of education.The school of life together with the other educations helps us to improve our civilization. In this process, we find educators that would choose the banking establishment or the problem posing method. In my experience, some of the professors that I had in the past, used banking system they would become transmitters and we would be the receptors. Most of the time with this pattern of education you learn whatever the teacher tells you to learn, but in a short period of time this information would disappear. With a problem-posing education in that respect is a relationship between professor and student.The class would become more active and teacher and student would become subjects of the educational process and humanism, they would learn from each other. Freire believes Those who use the banking approach, knowingly or unknowingly (for there are innumerable well-in tentioned bank-clerk teachers who do not realize that they are suffice only to dehumanize), fail to perceive that the deposits themselves contain contradictions about reality. But, sooner or later, these contradictions whitethorn lead formerly passive students to turn against their domestication and the prove to domesticate reality.They may discover through existential experience that their posture way of life is irreconcilable with their vocation to become fully human (Freire 75). Freire tells us that sometimes bank-clerk teachers do not realize that this method affects the students. It limits their persuasion capability to be critical, to be creative and to develop new theories or ideas. He also tells us that the contradictions about reality sometimes may lead the passive students to awake their consciousness and to go against their teachers and the banking method in order to become fully human.For example, Ender usually is pushed to his limits by Graff who uses a banking metho d, isolating him from the rest of the students, challenging and changing the rules always. But Ender never surrenders, he answers his teachers in a problem poser way solving all the challenges using his emerging consciousness. It is true that at a certain point, Ender believes Its the teachers, theyre the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The granular is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing (Enders plot 108).Eventually, Ender sees the teachers as his enemies and the game as nothing, which he demonstrates through such actions as his at the battle against two armies. As Freire says the contradictions about reality, leads the passive students to turn against the domesticate reality. Ender declares Im trapped here, Ender thought, trapped at the End of the World with no way out. And he knew at last the sour taste that had come to him, despite all his successes in the Battle School. It was despair (Enders Game 141).Ender tells us how he feels about be ing manipulated and also about deficient control over his own life. He fears the possibility of running out of ideas and not being able to win. He is worried because he has a huge responsibility. He is the last hope of the humanity. He knows that if he wants to win against the Buggers he has to learn more about them, he has to learn how to fuck his enemies, this way he finds their weaknesses and he uses this strategy to destroy them. However, Ender and Pheidippides are from different genres and belong to distant eras.Pheidippides in the Thinkery is exposed to radical thinkers like mundanity and by highly imaginative thinkers like Socrates. Above all, this creates repercussion, undermining traditional determine and corrupting the moral of youths. Sohpistry is a clear example of a problem poser method and he teaches Pheidippides that the principles of a society, such as arbiter and truth, are just concepts that can be adapted or see to the needs of society. After he graduates fr om the Socrates Thinkery, Pheidippides believes that he is a new man.Using his emerging consciousness he thinks that with this power he can challenge everybody and everything. Pheidippides points out But now, now that Socrates has made a fresh Pheidippides of me, now that my everyday diet is Philosophy, Profundity, Subtlety, and Science, I propose to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt the philosophical propriety of beating my Father (The clouds 103). Pheidippides emerging consciousness allows him to break and create his own rules, he says that his perplex deserves the beating because his father ordered him to play a lyre and sing a song even when Pheidippides did not wish to do it.His father keeps ordering things and Pheidippides did not view as with his fathers wishes, consequently he beat his father. Pheidippides justifies his acts telling his father that he beats him because he loves him and he says that for him loving and beating are synonymous. Pheidippides emerging consciou sness makes him a bully. Never mind Pheidippides, Pecolas classmates badgering and abuse her for being black and ugly, she is also raped by her father, and eventually she becomes pregnant by him.Although the baby dies, her mother treats her coldly, as she thinks Pecola is ugly and is shamefaced of her. Pecola becomes a martyr, she just wants to disappear from this world. She thinks that she is responsible for all bad things that play in the world. Claudia who is Pocolas friend comments The damage done was total. She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, base on balls up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly.Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reachcould not even seebut which filled the valleys of the mind. (The bluest eye 204). Claudia describes Pecola who has muddled her mind. Pecola is force farther into her fantasy world, which is her defense against violence and cruelty. The school of life awakes Pecolas emerging consciousness in a different way from the other students, instead to expose to the world and confront the challenges she drives herself into a utter of madness over the blue eyes.Tired of a dark and sad world she decides to disconnect with the reality and she creates her world, with her own rules and friends where everything is beautiful and perfect, where she has the bluest eyes. It is true, that our emerging consciousness is the extend of our different educations that is based on a problem-poser method, it does not serve the associate of the oppressor. Freire thinks as revolutionaries, we perceive the world as a reality in the process of evolution instead of a static reality. Therefore we should pass for a humanist society.