Education or Oppression?

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The writer expresses personal opinions about the schooling received as a student. The writer examines how the function of education is to allow the student to find his or her own personal identity, while providing the foundations and critical tools to achieve this. This is followed by an explanation of the two main types; banking and critical. Banking is passive absorption of amounts of data as opposed to critical which is emphasizing creativity. The author criticizes the education he/she received as not allowing enough self-expression and creativity.

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"The purpose of education should ideally be to advance the ability of the student to critically examine, understand and question the world around him or herself. In this sense education has a creative purpose and is intended to enable the student to challenge and confront the world in an open and knowledgeable way. Education should emphasize creativity and should never be merely a passive absorption of amounts of data that can be regurgitated mindlessly. This view of education, known as "banking" education, is actually in my view the opposite of what true education should be. In other words, education should teach the student to interact with the world and environment around him or herself. It is essentially aimed at liberating the student's mind through knowledge which is intended to empower the individual to inquire and question the total context of reality in which they exist."

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