Freire: Banking and Problem Posing Modes by Henry Aronson https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la Courtesy of Mighty, Mighty ENG 115! en-us 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC 2023-05-19 08:44:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Henry A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299847 Suli Breaks' "Why I Hate School but Love Education" 

I am sharing this poem because the poem shows that education, learning, doesn't have to happen within the rooms of a classroom. It reminds me of the cartoon of the little girl looking out the window at a colorful world. The poem also reminds me of the student in a classroom who isn't learning from the teacher, but whose mind is full of color, imagination, and problems worthy of investigation. While the student is in the classroom, it looks like the class isn't teaching this student much; his/her mental work happens silently, invisibly. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299847 Henry A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299848 Scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I chose this clip because it reminds me not only of students feeling angry, bored, and disrespected. The scene also shows how teachers may experience disconnection from their humanity, too. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299848 Jorge V. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299849 Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" synced up to "The Last in Line" by - Zaki Saati

This comes as a double package video: 
The music comes from Pink Floyd's 1975 song "Welcome to the machine" its main theme is the exploitation of young musicians from record labels, but its lyrics can be quickly attached to Oppression and the Banking mode of education:
"You didn't like school
And you know you're nobody's fool
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
What did you dream?
It's alright, we told you what to dream" 
We can picture these lines coming from a teacher to a student ridiculing his "marginal/oppressed" qualities, (as Freire describes in pg. 74) clearly mocking the students dreams molded by the teacher.

The video is an animation made by Zaki Saati titled "The Last in Line" which we can relate with the image of the girl trying to escape the classroom. A conforming mindless society obliged to work by mindless oppressors... Until one tries to break loose.
]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299849 Henry A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299852 Dominique Christina & Denice Frohman's "No Child Left Behind" 

This poem depicts several scenes that show the negative effects of dehumanizing education. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299852 Adriana M. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299854 Image about "Banking mode".

I chose this image because It can be related with the "Banking Concept". 
What I can observe and interpret from this picture is the students are being filled out with the orange chemical. There's some dialogues from the students "If it is not orange, it is not real" basically they look like zombies being manipulated by the professor who is making them to just believe in what he thinks. I can see that students are not "really thinking" they are not investigating, choosing what they will like to do or be. This is where I realized that everyone have different thoughts and opinions and nobody have to follow someone else.]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299854 Henry A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299856 Untitled GIF ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299856 Sebastian B. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299858 GIF I found on the Internet.

This GIF shows an individual above with a square head who looks indifferent (We can interpret the individual as the teacher who is shaping and taking away the individuality of the students) and several shapes below who have happy and smiley faces in some sort of conveyor belt. (Again, we interpret the shapes below as students who maybe have hopes and dreams that are later erased by the teacher and the school system altogether). 

Ok, first of all, the caption of the GIF is in Spanish and it translates to: “Capitalist School System”; I don’t believe that this system of learning is necessarily “Capitalist” because it can happen in any form of government or economic system.

This GIF is a visual representation of the banking mode of education proposed by Freire where the ability to conform to norms and ways of thinking of today’s society is not only strongly encouraged but all-out forced into the students’ minds.
]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299858 Richard B. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299859 Image about "Banking mode"
I chose this image because I felt it related to the Banking Concept in the education system. As shown, the teacher is cutting thought bubbles of students to fit into the square shape of her own thought bubble. This is similar to the previous cartoon covered in class involving an axe teacher cutting wooden students into square mannequins that all look the same. This represents how the banking system damages the creativity of students so they all fit into the education system.]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299859 Kassandra V. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299860  Banking Education I chose this image because it is a known cartoon and well frankly obvious that Miss Othmar made him feel dehumanized. You can see his emotions right through the cartoon. A sense of being ignored or as he said "looked right through". ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299860 Ivonne O. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299861 Image about "Banking mode"

I chose this image because I feel that it was related to the Banking concept on  the education system. As it is illustrated, there is a little kid with a big tree "creativity" coming out of his head, but he has a sad looking on his face while this tree is being cut of with some big scissors, but this tree is being cutting of by what it looks to be a teacher.
This image is similar to a cartoon that was analyzed in class, an axe teacher "shaping" the little wooden figures (representing the students) making them look the same.
This little cartoon here states how the banking system of education destroys students creativity, unfortunately not just their creativity but also their way of thinking and expressing themselves as individuals.]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299861 Jocelyn F. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299862 I chose to share a few quotes from the book "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse. 
"Siddhartha had begun to feel the seeds of discontent within him... He had begun to suspect that his worthy father and his other teachers, the wise Brahmins, had already passed onto him the bulk and best of their wisdom, that they had already poured the sum total of their knowledge into his waiting vessel; and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still." (Pages 5 & 6)

"There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees. No, this tremendous amount of knowledge, collected and preserved by successive generations of wise Brahmins could not be easily overlooked. But where were the Brahmins, the priests, the wise men, who were successful not only in having this most profound knowledge, but in experiencing it?" (Page 7)

"But there is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced-- he alone among hundreds of thousands. That is what I thought and realized when I heard your teachings. That is why I am going on my way-- not to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone-- or die." (Page 34)

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but  one  cannot communicate and teach it." (Page 142)

If I could, I'd just attach the entire book. Clearly, Siddhartha feels strongly about the banking method. It is the system he grew up with, and with time he began to realize it didn't truly help him the way experiencing the world for himself would. He knew that continuing to live by other people's teachings wouldn't grant him the knowledge that life has to offer, much like problem-posing! Ta da!]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299862 Christopher E. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299863 I chose this video called "Don't Stay In School" because it essentially proves a point that school does not teach us what we need to know in order to truly succeed in life. It ties back to banking concepts because it proves that the education system does not allow us to do anything beyond what is required in the curriculum.]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299863 Ann A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299864 . “So although I heard the emptiness intellectually, I didn’t feel it. My first reaction consisted of being grateful that we could afford a Penfield mood organ. But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not reacting—do you see? I guess you don’t. But that used to be considered a sign of mental illness; they called it ‘absence of appropriate affect.”
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 
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Social criticism, satire and plenty of sci-fi series we have seen an admire are usually made out of the the -I'd called- 'The Sci-fi Big Three';  1. Philip K. Dick with "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" 2. "1984, George Orwell. 3. Brave New World", Aldous Huxley. They usually addressed social issues regardless government and hierarchical power (usually mentioning absolute totalitarian and dystopian universes) where individuals are treated poorly or incapable to decide according to how they were thought and restricted. When it comes to education, even Freire mentions it multiply time referring to a problem even higher than just the educational system (a hierarchical power). This quote from Philip K. Dick reminds of how dehumanized education can treat individuals. We usually forget education is for LEARNING A SKILL, not memorizing (banking education). In any case, education SHOULD challenge intellectual thinking and stimulate students ideas to be aware of his surroundings, not distort his/hers vision of the world. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299864 Alliah P. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299866 I chose this image for the reason that, it shows banking mode education. The students are being reshape by the teacher that symbolizes as someone that is superior or above the students. The superiority of the teacher makes the student obey and robotically follow every command that comes out her mouth. The students has their own ideas, thoughts and opinions but the teacher wanted to reshape those and change it. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299866 Jorge V. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299867 Pink Floyd's "Happiest days of our lives & Another Brick on the wall pt.2"

I chose this song because it clearly exemplifies what Freire lists in pg. 73 as the attitudes and practices of the banking concept.
"The teacher talks and students listen" "The teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined".In an interview Roger Waters (writer of the song) said "This song refers to those bad teachers who continually put their students down, never encourage or motivate them, and simply try to “crush them into the right shape, so that they would go to university and do well""]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299867 Edgardo Valenzuela haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299868 I chose this video for the reason of how it explains how nothing has evolved in a very long time. I love the comparison he made between the cars and phones evolution through out the years, making clear points on what has been changing. He mentions its contradictory part, education, and how it has been remained the same through out history.]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299868 Karina C. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299869 I chose this image because it remind me of Banking mode of education. How the education system emphasizes on converting people into what they think it’s the “ideal human”. And in the process destroying our own creativity]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299869 Amor C. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299870 I think this quote from Aristotle can describe a lot what we have been talking about since the very beginning. Education is not about creating robots, but to help students to evolve into something powerful, cultivate wisdom, feelings and emotions, so at the end they can know to how to grow the seeds of knowledge by themselves, and be able to use their critical thinking freely and becoming problem solvers not only memorizing subjects. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299870 Joshua T. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299871 Scene from "Stand and Deliver"
I chose this scene because it exemplifies "Problem Posing". In this scene the teacher wants explain how integers work by using real world examples like sand at the beach. Also, toward the end of the clip, he introduces how parenthesis work and makes them repeat " negative times a negative, equals a positive" and then ask them WHY? ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299871 Acecya B. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299872 I chose this image because It reminded me of banking mode which is about the education system based on it’s ideas of the “perfect student”  leading students to lose their creativity and ability to have their own opinions and be able to think freely. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299872 Henry A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299873 "Somewhere in America" I found this after a student asked if I knew of any other poems like the one "No Child Left Behind," so I checked YouTube, using the search terms" Education" and "Poetry." After spending a few minutes looking at the clips that popped up, this one caught my eye. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299873 Dani C. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299874 I don’t know the name of this but it’s a pretty good vine. I picked it because as students we’ve all experienced being in a class and not remembering anything from it. Once the test is over the knowledge is gone, which means there was no actual learning being done. We are just containers being filled and emptied over and over. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299874 Marvin A. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299875 I chose this quote from the Greek Philosopher Socrates because the quote made me recall the video shared in class "Why I Hate School, but Love Education." The quote brings up the same context of the video by covering the dilemma of how education is important in life but not a primary force in life and how there are other things that must be accounted for. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299875 Richard T. haronson1 https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299876 I dont think this image has a name, but I chose this one because it reminded me of another image we viewed in class. You can clearly see which learning style he went through, banking theory. This image shows a interviewer asking a applicant about his qualifications and all he knows is test taking skills. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haronson1/mlil43v242la/wish/455299876