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Paulo Freire

 

By creating such a vivid picture of the banking concept of education, Freire forces the reader to think creatively to see the other side of his argument. He is using the tactics of problem posing education to explain what the foundation of problem posing education is all about. .
             With Freire teaching the concepts of problem posing education through creative and independent thought, he is allowing the reader to experience some of the most important aspects of problem posing education. He is giving his audience a way to participate as they are reading and to take responsibility for the education of their ideas on problem posing education. By first presenting the readers with the banking concept of education Freire is introducing an idea of education that many are familiar with, and is giving them an idea that will soon be contradicted. By spelling out all the negatives in the banking concept of education, he is unnoticeably helping the readers realize all the positives in the problem posing style of education. "In order to be, it must become.""(page 357) If Freire was to spell out all the different aspects of problem posing education, he would be teaching you with the type of education he disagrees with most, the banking concept of education. .
             After reading Freire's essay and understanding all of the pieces of the puzzle, I have put them together and come up with, what in my mind, represents Freire's idea of problem posing education accurately. .
             "Problem posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming "as unfinished, uncompleted beings in and with a likewise unfinished reality. Indeed, in contrast to other animals who are unfinished, but not historical, people know themselves to be unfinished; they are aware of their incompletion. In this incompletion and this awareness lie the very roots of education as an exclusively human manifestation. The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.


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