Paulo Freire and Mary Louise Pratt are great essay writers. Both of their essays have great ideas for education. In each of their essay they talk about different education ideas and how a classroom should be like. It is important to have communication between the students and the teachers. Though out both essays they talk about different ideas of education and how a classroom should look like and how it is when its not like that student don’t have their own ideas which is almost hurting them because they are only learning from the teacher but do not have their own idea.
Freire, in his essay, talks about the Banking Concept of education. “This is the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits” (Freire, 244). Pratt, in her essay, talks about the Contact Zone. “I use this term to refer to social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the worlds today” (Pratt, 501).
In my opinion, I particularly do not like reading and writing. Because of my background, I struggle with both very much. I’m not one of those genius people who can just sit down and read or write. I have to have a thinking process. I would have to come up with a draft. I do not enjoy reading hard book. They completely throw me off and I can easy get frustrated because some even if I try to understand sometimes I sill don’t even if I read the passage over and over again. So what I have started to do is I broke it down into mini parts and then go from there. When I read a passage or a sentence, I put in in my own words and what I think it means. Then after all is broken down I finally put it all together.
In the past I have had some pretty unpleasant times with reading and writing. Wether its a book I have to read that I either don’t like and absolutely hate or just can’t follow through with reading it, I have never really ben interested in books that I do not enjoy reading. If it’s a book for school I either always just get it out of the way and go ahead and read it or it just doesn’t get done. I like reading and writing about things that I enjoy and like to talk about. You not going to just come up to your friends and be like so lets just have a fun conversation about the book we just finished. I like to write casual papers like you are talking to people. Also a paper has to be strong support and structure. It is always good to back up your writing because it gives your teachers or instructors a deeper thought that lets them know that you know what you are talking about.
During my school years before I came to college I had many interesting experiences. Some were great to learn from and others I left like it was stupid and pointless. I remember in elementary school, in the third grade was my favorite time. I was learning english with my amazing ESL teacher. She was probably one of the coolest teachers other then my homeroom teacher. Megan Jarrell was such an encourager. When I struggled with something she was always there for me and to the other students. That was probably the time and period when I was in the safe zone because the students and I were on the same page. We did the same thing and learned the same facts together. But it was definitely not like the banking concept because the teachers knew how each student learned and how everyone learned differently. In middle and high school, that is where it became a contact zone zone. This was because that is when life really hit me. I had to realize school just gets harder. You had to figure out how you learn and how you need to study for your tests and write your essays. I did not just learn in a classroom but also outside of school and having to spend many hours studying on my own.
So the teacher defiantly knew how to teach from different points so that every one will understand the lessons. I know the teacher is always the authority figure in a classroom but it is important to have that communication between the student and teacher. If that doesn’t happen that leads to the classroom as a banking concept where the teacher teaches and that is the way it goes and the student have to learn what the teacher says but are not allowed to have their own opinion. This is when students become passive and just give up because when you are just doing by the same thing and getting in the same routine and sometimes that is good in some situations but in the classroom not so much. Hearing different viewpoints and also to other students opinions, gives you different perspectives. You have your own opinions and others have their own.It is important for the student to understand what is going on and what they are talking about in the classroom. So if the student has questions or needs help the teacher should always try to help. That way the pressure is off the student and they understand the topic further.
Asking questions shows the professor that the student is trying to learn about the topic that is unclear to them. This way it wont lead the student into complete procrastination. If it gets to this point many students may just give up which is very sad. As put in Freire’s own words, I like the idea of liberation education. In the essay he encourages for the student to go beyond just learning in a classroom and learn outside it and about the world. You can tell that in Freire’s essay he likes liberation education much better then the banking concept because it is a pore in and pore out concept because with the banking concept it is just the teacher pores in but the students don’t pore out. It is critical to your learning skills to develop your thoughts because that is useful for many reason. You can visualize about what you are thinking and it helps you look at the world in different directions not from just one view point.
Both of the authors of the essay did a fantastic job with the essays. They challenged your brain and made you think critically. Frier says that experience is more important then memorization because then you learn something, you may use it in the future unlike memorization where you know the information for a certain amount of time only and then forget it all. Pratt, in her essay, was saying that everyone learns differently just like Freires and said that you have to figure out what is important to you. Some people know what is important to them and others are still figuring it out.
Freire, in his essay, talks about the Banking Concept of education. “This is the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits” (Freire, 244). Pratt, in her essay, talks about the Contact Zone. “I use this term to refer to social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the worlds today” (Pratt, 501).
In my opinion, I particularly do not like reading and writing. Because of my background, I struggle with both very much. I’m not one of those genius people who can just sit down and read or write. I have to have a thinking process. I would have to come up with a draft. I do not enjoy reading hard book. They completely throw me off and I can easy get frustrated because some even if I try to understand sometimes I sill don’t even if I read the passage over and over again. So what I have started to do is I broke it down into mini parts and then go from there. When I read a passage or a sentence, I put in in my own words and what I think it means. Then after all is broken down I finally put it all together.
In the past I have had some pretty unpleasant times with reading and writing. Wether its a book I have to read that I either don’t like and absolutely hate or just can’t follow through with reading it, I have never really ben interested in books that I do not enjoy reading. If it’s a book for school I either always just get it out of the way and go ahead and read it or it just doesn’t get done. I like reading and writing about things that I enjoy and like to talk about. You not going to just come up to your friends and be like so lets just have a fun conversation about the book we just finished. I like to write casual papers like you are talking to people. Also a paper has to be strong support and structure. It is always good to back up your writing because it gives your teachers or instructors a deeper thought that lets them know that you know what you are talking about.
During my school years before I came to college I had many interesting experiences. Some were great to learn from and others I left like it was stupid and pointless. I remember in elementary school, in the third grade was my favorite time. I was learning english with my amazing ESL teacher. She was probably one of the coolest teachers other then my homeroom teacher. Megan Jarrell was such an encourager. When I struggled with something she was always there for me and to the other students. That was probably the time and period when I was in the safe zone because the students and I were on the same page. We did the same thing and learned the same facts together. But it was definitely not like the banking concept because the teachers knew how each student learned and how everyone learned differently. In middle and high school, that is where it became a contact zone zone. This was because that is when life really hit me. I had to realize school just gets harder. You had to figure out how you learn and how you need to study for your tests and write your essays. I did not just learn in a classroom but also outside of school and having to spend many hours studying on my own.
So the teacher defiantly knew how to teach from different points so that every one will understand the lessons. I know the teacher is always the authority figure in a classroom but it is important to have that communication between the student and teacher. If that doesn’t happen that leads to the classroom as a banking concept where the teacher teaches and that is the way it goes and the student have to learn what the teacher says but are not allowed to have their own opinion. This is when students become passive and just give up because when you are just doing by the same thing and getting in the same routine and sometimes that is good in some situations but in the classroom not so much. Hearing different viewpoints and also to other students opinions, gives you different perspectives. You have your own opinions and others have their own.It is important for the student to understand what is going on and what they are talking about in the classroom. So if the student has questions or needs help the teacher should always try to help. That way the pressure is off the student and they understand the topic further.
Asking questions shows the professor that the student is trying to learn about the topic that is unclear to them. This way it wont lead the student into complete procrastination. If it gets to this point many students may just give up which is very sad. As put in Freire’s own words, I like the idea of liberation education. In the essay he encourages for the student to go beyond just learning in a classroom and learn outside it and about the world. You can tell that in Freire’s essay he likes liberation education much better then the banking concept because it is a pore in and pore out concept because with the banking concept it is just the teacher pores in but the students don’t pore out. It is critical to your learning skills to develop your thoughts because that is useful for many reason. You can visualize about what you are thinking and it helps you look at the world in different directions not from just one view point.
Both of the authors of the essay did a fantastic job with the essays. They challenged your brain and made you think critically. Frier says that experience is more important then memorization because then you learn something, you may use it in the future unlike memorization where you know the information for a certain amount of time only and then forget it all. Pratt, in her essay, was saying that everyone learns differently just like Freires and said that you have to figure out what is important to you. Some people know what is important to them and others are still figuring it out.