Paolo Friere banking concept of education is basically that teachers “teach”, and students are “taught”. Teachers basically have the power to choose what the students will be learning. The problem with this is that the “teachers” have the authority to choose what to fill with students minds, and the students are forced to memorize and learn these things without knowing why. “Teachers confuse authority of knowledge with their own professional authority, which they oppose the freedom of the students.” Friere disagrees with this banking concept and believes that students should work together with their teacher to come up with solutions, and have dialogues to interact with each other, thus allowing students to be able to think freely and independently.

As students, we encounter the banking concept when we are at school. We are constantly being filled with knowledge that we get from teachers from a young age until we graduate, and constantly being retaining this education yet most of us don’t understand it all or remember it. Although the banking concept can be applied to our education, it also helps us build our own thoughts when we get older. We start questioning things about the time we get to middle school/high school and are always asked about our thoughts on the topic, which gives us a freedom to build our own thoughts and opinions.