Education in Evolution: from Freire’s Bank Clerk to Problem Poser

Our portrait as disciples is an evolution of intimacys of continuous lifes ch tout ensembleenges and disasters. In our childhood, we consider our p arents the first off thatched roofers. In the process of growing and maturing, we trade union the educational cosmos going to school at the very(prenominal) prison term that we are introduced to the school of life. As scholars, we come knowledged Freires two educational method actings bank-clerk and problem-posing.It is square that the educator would decide what method to employ, however, at the end, most of us, including the students depicted in ancient and modern literature, would call for to be critical thinkers and exhibit Freires Emerging Consciousness, opening the door to creativity, critical and a revolutionary learning process. Usually, the beginning of our education starts at home our parents are the first ones who t each(prenominal) us how to behave with manners and cultural customs. The education that we received at home can be contrasting for everybody and the reason is antithetical cultures, languages, and religion.The way our parents and families teach us can be defined as calculus of bank clerk and problem posing methods, the parents are the teachers and we are the students, sometimes the parents persona the banking concept, they talk and contrive commands and the students just listen and accept the commands. As Freire declares Education thus dumbfounds an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.This is the banking concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as furthermost as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits (Freire 72). Freire tells us that using banking education, the parents live narrators and the children just containers to be modify with the parents knowledge. Pedagogy of the Oppressed emphasizes that talk between parents and children, doesnt exist in a banking education. Banking education means suppression and by suppression, children are limited to extend their learning process by being filled by the parents ideas.But do the parents authorise that using a bank-clerk method minimizes or annuls their childrens creative power? Some parents do non examine it, they become oppressors and their children the oppressed. They consider their children inexperienced and ignorant. The parents think that their children have to learn what they teach them without asking or questioning some(prenominal)thing, this way they would be integrated into the society accepting the passive role imposed on them. Strepsiades can be a good example of a father using banking education. Strepsiades wants his son to connect the Thinkery to learn the two logics to save him from his debts.In the beginning, Pheidippides does not want to join the Thinkery because he believes that citizenry from the Thinkery are unhinged and what is taught is a fraud. Finally, Strepsiades persuades Pheidippides and he joins the Thinkery. Strepsiades claims So tutor him in your two logics handed-d protest Philosophical Logic and that brazen modern sophistic logic they call wrong because its so wonderfully wicked. In any case, if he cant master both logics, I insist that he learn the Immoral Kind of argument (The Clouds 66). Strepsiades does not question Socrates methods, he tells Socrates to take his son as his student and teach him the two logics.Stresiades does not care whatever it would take for Pheidippides to learn the two logics. Stresiades sees Pheidippides just as machine that would server the purpose of avoiding to pay his debts. Pheidippides is the oppressed and he can not question or remark any method that they would use in the Thinkery to teach him the two logics. However, former(a) parents want mine, using a coalition of both educational methods, sometimes talk in a mandatory way and postcode is negotiable as Colonel Graff, the luff of the passage of arms school, does with Ender.Occasionally, my parents talk to me as a friend in a rational way, sharing their experiences and exposing their problems. As equal adult male beings, we reach the communication between teacher and student in the process of learning from each other we expose Freires emerge brain. We do not see parents just as an authority, we see them as friends, to turnher, finished dialogue, critical criteria, and creativity we perplex a problem-posing education.In Enders case, he is the third child of the Wiggins family he knows that he could not substantiation with his biological parents, his instincts push him toward new experiences and the discovery of new things. He leaves his parents in an early age to join a battle school. Beginning on that day, Colonel Graff acts as Enders father at the school and Enders life would not be the same again. Like Ender, I felt the same attraction when I first joined culinary school at age of 13, leaving my family far away to experience one of the biggest challenges in my life.I would be alone in a place where everything and everybody was unknown to me. This life experience was a vital part of my educational journey. As Freire believes Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the realism and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obligated to respond to that challenge (Freire 81). Freire thinks that when we convalesce challenges in our life, that push to ourselves, we develop the power to perceive critically the way of our existence in the world and in which we find ourselves becoming teachers-students and students-teachers.Graff enforces banking education on Ender, manipulating, isolating, and limiting his existence in the school. Graff believes We could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesnt want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining a straining and, at last, every few generations, give birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire. (Enders Game 35). Graff explains to Ender why they chose him to join the battle school.He tells Ender that they expect him to be a hero and save humanity. As a tutor and teacher. Graff, being a bank-clerk, pushes Ender to his limits, but Enders reaction is different, the more they challenge and isolate him the more he awakes his emerging consciousness. Ender concisely becomes the best strategist and leader of the battle school. On the other hand, Pecolas story is totally different from Enders. Pecola bears the blame for the sins, crimes, mistakes or misfortunes of her parents, she suffers convolutes from her parents, and people at the school even the cashier from the grocery s tore that sees done her.She is treated as a marginal person who does not fit in to white peoples view of what beauty means for society. For Pecola, beauty means to have blue eyes. Pecola feels As pertinacious as she looked the way she did, as long as she was ugly, she would have to stay with these people. Somehow she belonged to them. Long hours she sit looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or detest at school, by teachers and classmates alike. She was the only member of her class who sat alone at a twin desk. The blues eye 45). Pecola does not like the world of isolation and oblivion where she lives. She associates black with ugliness. She tries to find an assist to why people ignore and despised her at the school and at home. She thinks that the solution for all her problems is to get blue eyes, and for her blue eyes are synonymous of acceptance and beauty. Unfortunately Pecolas experiences at the school are n ot pleasant, fortunately, we join the educational world going to the school, and enjoying the adbantanges of education.The school of life together with the other educations helps us to improve our civilization. In this process, we find educators that would choose the banking system or the problem posing method. In my experience, some of the professors that I had in the past, used banking system they would become transmitters and we would be the receptors. Most of the time with this configuration of education you learn whatever the teacher tells you to learn, but in a short period of time this information would disappear. With a problem-posing education there is a relationship between professor and student.The class would become more active and teacher and student would become subjects of the educational process and humanism, they would learn from each other. Freire believes Those who use the banking approach, knowingly or unknowingly (for there are innumerable well- targetioned ban k-clerk teachers who do not realize that they are serving only to dehumanize), fail to perceive that the deposits themselves contain contradictions some earth. But, sooner or later, these contradictions may lead formerly passive students to turn against their domestication and the attempt to domesticate reality.They may discover through existential experience that their present way of life is irreconcilable with their vocation to become fully human (Freire 75). Freire tells us that sometimes bank-clerk teachers do not realize that this method affects the students. It limits their thinking capability to be critical, to be creative and to develop new theories or ideas. He in like manner tells us that the contradictions about reality sometimes may lead the passive students to awake their consciousness and to go against their teachers and the banking method in order to become fully human.For example, Ender usually is pushed to his limits by Graff who uses a banking method, isolating him from the rest of the students, challenging and changing the rules always. But Ender never surrenders, he answers his teachers in a problem poser way solving all the challenges using his emerging consciousness. It is true that at a certain point, Ender believes Its the teachers, theyre the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The enlivened is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing (Enders game 108).Eventually, Ender sees the teachers as his enemies and the game as nothing, which he demonstrates through such actions as his at the battle against two armies. As Freire says the contradictions about reality, leads the passive students to turn against the domesticate reality. Ender declares Im trapped here, Ender thought, trapped at the End of the orbit with no way out. And he knew at last the sour taste that had come to him, despite all his successes in the Battle School. It was despair (Enders Game 141).Ender tells us how he feels about being manipul ated and also about lacking control over his own life. He fears the possibility of running out of ideas and not being able to win. He is worried because he has a huge responsibility. He is the last wish of the humanity. He knows that if he wants to win against the Buggers he has to learn more about them, he has to learn how to dear his enemies, this way he finds their weaknesses and he uses this strategy to destroy them. However, Ender and Pheidippides are from different genres and belong to distant eras.Pheidippides in the Thinkery is exposed to radical thinkers like Sophistry and by highly imaginative thinkers like Socrates. Above all, this creates repercussion, undermining traditional values and corrupting the moral of youths. Sohpistry is a clear example of a problem poser method and he teaches Pheidippides that the principles of a society, such as justice and truth, are just concepts that can be qualified or interpreted to the needs of society. After he graduates from the Soc rates Thinkery, Pheidippides believes that he is a new man.Using his emerging consciousness he thinks that with this power he can challenge everybody and everything. Pheidippides points out But now, now that Socrates has made a fresh Pheidippides of me, now that my daily diet is Philosophy, Profundity, Subtlety, and Science, I propose to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt the philosophical propriety of beating my Father (The clouds 103). Pheidippides emerging consciousness allows him to break and create his own rules, he says that his father deserves the beating because his father ordered him to play a lyre and sing a mental strain even when Pheidippides did not wish to do it.His father keeps ordering things and Pheidippides did not agree with his fathers wishes, consequently he beat his father. Pheidippides justifies his acts telling his father that he beats him because he loves him and he says that for him gentle and beating are synonymous. Pheidippides emerging consciousness ma kes him a bully. Never mind Pheidippides, Pecolas classmates torment and abuse her for being black and ugly, she is also raped by her father, and eventually she becomes pregnant by him.Although the baby dies, her mother treats her coldly, as she thinks Pecola is ugly and is ashamed of her. Pecola becomes a martyr, she just wants to disappear from this world. She thinks that she is responsible for all bad things that materialise in the world. Claudia who is Pocolas friend comments The damage done was total. She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly.Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reachcould not even seebut which filled the valleys of the mind. (The bluest eye 204). Claudia describes Pecola who has lost her min d. Pecola is force farther into her fantasy world, which is her defense against violence and cruelty. The school of life awakes Pecolas emerging consciousness in a different way from the other students, instead to expose to the world and confront the challenges she drives herself into a state of madness over the blue eyes.Tired of a dark and sad world she decides to disconnect with the reality and she creates her world, with her own rules and friends where everything is beautiful and perfect, where she has the bluest eyes. It is true, that our emerging consciousness is the result of our different educations that is based on a problem-poser method, it does not serve the concern of the oppressor. Freire thinks as revolutionaries, we perceive the world as a reality in the process of evolution instead of a static reality. Therefore we should strive for a human-centred society.