Comments on: Another word on scalability http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/158 pragmatism over zeal Fri, 18 May 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Teemu http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/158/comment-page-1#comment-180 Teemu Thu, 19 May 2005 20:48:36 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/158#comment-180 I found this discussion very sad and very anti-Freirean. Well, actually Dave Bauer said it already pretty well: "The answer is to stop thinking about “providing” education and start thinking about facilitating or encouraging learning." In the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Freire makes a clear distinction between the "banking concept of education" and "problem-posing education". It's not hard to guess what he was promoting. The aim of reaching everyone is immoral. It seems to be a project of expanding the banking concept of education where "knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing" (Freire 1974 – chapter II online at: http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html. Now I'll go with my daughter to our little hut by the lake and we will learn something from the old fisherman who speaks a funny language you don't understand at all. You will never reach me! :-) I found this discussion very sad and very anti-Freirean. Well, actually Dave Bauer said it already pretty well: “The answer is to stop thinking about “providing” education and start thinking about facilitating or encouraging learning.”

In the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Freire makes a clear distinction between the “banking concept of education” and “problem-posing education”. It’s not hard to guess what he was promoting.

The aim of reaching everyone is immoral. It seems to be a project of expanding the banking concept of education where “knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing” (Freire 1974 – chapter II online at: http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html.

Now I’ll go with my daughter to our little hut by the lake and we will learn something from the old fisherman who speaks a funny language you don’t understand at all. You will never reach me! :-)

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