Paulo Freire was born September, 19, 1921. Freire was raised in Northeast Brazil and is best known for his work “Pedagogy and Oppressed.” Most of his work is stemmed from experiences of his childhood. Since Freire lived among the poor he understood how class consciousness and knowledge played a role simultaneously.  Freire became a grammar school teacher in high school and continued to get multiple degrees in his lifetime. In 1946 Paulo Freire became the Director of the Department of Education and Social Services.

In the text Paulo Freire introduces the topic Banking Model. Banking Model is the form of teaching where teachers have minimal communication with students when teaching a lesson.  Instead of communicating, teachers would often lecture and “deposit” information into the student’s head. This would happen through memorizing, repeating, and reciting.  Freire explained that this method of teaching is flawed because students are not taught how to process information which, leads them to not fully understand what they are learning. This empowers the teacher and disempowers the student.  Each student learns in a different and unique way which The Banking Model eradicates. Students who are not able to process what the teacher taught using The Banking Model were often lost and left behind in the education system because of the authority the teacher held over the student.

As a student who is  a visual learner being taught using The Banking Model would be a big NO NO!!!!!! There are often times where teachers and professors have this authority over us that we cannot really control the way that they are teaching. Professors and teachers who do not acknowledge that there are different types of way to teach rather then lecturing just make it super hard on students to engage in class. Being lectured at is not fun and usually puts me to sleep and I am pretty sure other college students would agree with me. Professors should think how can I teach in a way that students would learn and understand the information being taught. Anyone can sit there and lecture at students but how many professors/ teachers can actually say that they have made their classes engaging and actually HAVE TAUGHT?!?!