Answer to Question #304103 in English for Yolanda

Question

What is “banking education”? Further indicate why, in terms thereof, “the student is reduced to the level of an unthinking object with no views, values or capacity to engage with the facts.”

Answer 1

Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the "banking" concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits.

"the student is reduced to the level of an unthinking object with no views, values or capacity to engage with the facts.