The "Banking" Critique

Students are not empty accounts to which teachers deposit information. This "banking concept" minimizes students' critical thinking and hinders intellectual growth. The aims of this concept is to continue the division between those who are knowing and those who are not. By just filling students minds with "correct" answers which they memorize, store, and repeat, we are silencing the concept of an original opinion, killing the idea of the students unique ideas to contribute. This destroys curiosity, creativity, and any investigative spirit in the learners, encouraging passive behavior. Those who accept this concept, "care neither to have the world revealed, nor to see it transformed".

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