Philosophy of education

Reading this chapter, I did not really like it. I did not agree with how they kept talking about the student teacher relationship as "oppressive" and a banking concept as a bad thing. As a student I do not know any other way to be taught by the teacher than by the banking system. As a student, you want to learn and respect what the teacher has to offer you. A lot of the things the article was saying I did not think was right at all, like how it said the teacher thinks and the students are taught. This is completely not true as I feel that students are constantly thinking about the information that is being presented to them. I also did not like how it said students know nothing, I think this article is giving a bad name to teachers. Teachers are put in a classroom to teach students not look down on them, which is what the article is trying to say and that is not true. Teachers want to help students and that is why they do the things that they do. When the chapter kept talking about the banking concept I did not understand what was so bad about that idea. Teachers have knowledge that needs to get passed on to students and if students bank that knowledge then I find that to be a good thing, the lesson worked. Why else would we have teachers if it were not to pass down knowledge and hope that students actually learn and remember what was taught to them. As it is pretty obvious I did not like this chapter or what was being said. I found it to be unfair to teachers, making them seem like teachers are dictators in the classroom, which is not true, they only want to help students succeed and pass down any knowledge they have that can help students in the future.