In Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education.” He says that a serious issue with the banking concept of learning is the mentality of “the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing”. While watching Chalk, there was a time when the history teacher “Mr. Stroope” held one of his students after class to talk with her. The teacher asked the student not to know more than him in class. He asked the student to “dumb” down her knowledge of Social Studies, to make the rest of the class feel like he knew it all, he was the one with the brain.
In Gatto’s “Against Schools, How Schools Cripple Our Kids.” He says “I feel I had to defy the custom, bend the law, to help kids break out of the trap of boredom.” Coach Webb seemed to express this same desire. She took her students into a classroom and instead of doing the normal physical education she told them they were going to be trying something different. She then led them into some “awkward’ yoga positions. One kid admitted to feeling “hot and vulnerable” which then caused the class to erupt in laughter and become more engaged in the activity.
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