The banking model to Friere is a concept of education where students take in and receive information as well as storing it. It is a metaphor that compares students to empty containers that teachers must fill with knowledge. It empowers the educator and disempowers the student to the extent where the student must give back that information on the assessment. The students have to receive the information, memorize the information needed to pass the test at the end of the lesson to then repeating it consistently.

In high school, my junior year math class, my teacher forbid us to take notes and we had to memorize the information he told us at the moment he told his students. It helped very little students, but hurt a lot of us, including me because we had nothing to review when it was time to take the test.

In my senior year music class, my teacher gave us the information we needed through speech, videos and music for the final exam and we all memorized it daily until it was test day. She would review all the terms we needed to know and every specific detail that each one of her students passed the final she gave with high scores and she was very proud of us.