"What would Friere add to or change about K-12 education?"

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor." I think this excerpt from Paolo Friere's, "The Banking Concept of Education", explains how he feels about education. Friere insists that teachers do not communicate with their students and only offers them information that they should memorize and repeat. The teachers lecture and the students listen and it all becomes a cycle. "Education is suffering from narration sickness", is also another example on Friere's thoughts on education. He offers a solution of "problem-posing", which allows the teachers to not only teach but to also be taught by students. Students are able to communicate, question, and reflect on what they are being taught. It is a two-way street, not just the students receiving information and regurgitating it on a test. Friere believes that problem-posing will allow students to think freely and "are now critical co-investigators in dialogue with the teacher." The banking education becomes ineffective while problem-posing allows students to become conscious individuals. After reading this, I can see a pattern in most of the teachers that I have come across and most follow the curriculum to a 'T' and do not want to go further than what they have to teach. Instead of giving their students 150%, we receive 50%. Friere believes in engaging students in a different way by allowing them to think out loud and to analyze the material given. There is no better way to engage the students by challenging them; "students.....will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge."