This chapter of Pedagogy of the Oppressed was a little bit easier to understand after the class discussion we had on Friday. This chapter seemed like it focused more on the teacher student relationship, instead of education as a whole. This chapter talks about the teacher being a narrator and narrating to their students. It also mentions the bank deposits that we actually discussed in class, about how teachers are making "deposits" of information to the students and the students are just receiving and storing these "deposits" of information. I think this is a very extreme way to look at the education system overall. I do believe that in the past, and I can speak from my own experiences, that there was a lot of emphasis on students sitting in a classroom listening to teachers lecture for hours on end with no differentiated instruction. Now I believe that we have made much progress to move away from that in secondary classrooms.
The chapter also lists ten things that education contributes to society's overall attitude, which I found to be quite interesting. One of the rules is "the teacher teaches and the students are taught", this makes it sound like both teachers and students are robots. Once again I just felt like this chapter was looking at education from a very extreme point of view.
I look forward to everyone's responses to this chapter and the class discussion tomorrow.
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