Document Type
Education Essay
Publication Date
10-20-2011
Excerpt
Large and small, good and bad, black and white: it seems everything in the world is composed by many forms and therefore extremes exist in every case, and so it is with education. There are different types of education systems such as the western style and the Asian style. As Paulo Freire said in his literature Pedagogy of the Oppressed, “Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction” (30), so he introduced to us two extreme ways of education systems in terms of the teacher-student relationship: the “banking” concept of education; and the problem-posing education. As for me, I do not think either of these two are perfectly right and should be followed completely. This is the same with our daily life in which we would prefer things in the middle (such as average instead of small and large), we do not want extreme things. When considering an education system, it may be better to use a combination of banking education and problem-posing education rather than just choosing either one of them at all in terms of teacher-student relationship.
Recommended Citation
Zhao, Chuandi, "The Best Education Lies in the Middle (2011)" (2011). The Valpo Core Reader. 12.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/12
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