The Banking Concept

In Paulo Freire’s essay “The Banking Concept of Education,” he discusses the flaws he has seen in the education system. Specifically he argues that in most education systems the students are just empty receptacles being filled by their teachers, there is no dialog between the teacher and students. Freire thinks that in education learning should not be a one way thing, there should be a dialog going on between the teacher and students. Another big point Freire emphasizes in his essay is active learning, so that everyone is learning and participating. In Freire’s essay he proposes a new way of learning/a new concept of learning called the “problem posing concept.” Another point Freire makes in his problem-posing concept is that education is

In the excerpt from “The Banking Concept of Education” the author, Paulo Freire explains the critical flaw in the current education system. He continues by offering his believed solution to this problem. The two concepts Freire discusses in this excerpt are the “banking concept” of education and the “problem-posing method” of education. The “banking concept” is talked about rather negatively, whereas the “problem-posing method” is talked about highly. Freire believes in the “problem-posing method” and that students should have free-will to a certain extent in the classroom with less authoritative power from the teacher during discussions.

Okonkwo strives all of his life to become a stronger, more powerful, and a successful individual. He wants to do this because his father was a slack and lazy person who lived most of his life in debt and had no titles to his name. People often looked at his father as a women figure for the few achievements he redeemed. Okonkwo never wanted to be like his father and it eventually got to the point where he became fearful of becoming like him. Achebe uses the power of fear as a theme of to show how much it can devastate one’s

Briefly explain the rise and fall of LTCM. What was the moral hazard issue the fed was worried about? How did they try and get around the moral hazard issue? What specifically was the Fed's role in the bailout? What roles specifically did Bear play and not play in the LTCM's life and death?

Okonkwo uses strength and manliness to show dominance and manipulate people's views. Okonkwo uses his strength to fight, and show dominance over other people in his clan. Secondly, he maintains a constant image of manliness. Therefore, Okonkwo cannot show affection towards his daughters, cannot constantly treat his family with respect, and lastly, cannot associate with feminine men. This constant use of strength and lack of affection brings Okowkno to his demise. America still has many similar issues. Examples include, dominance over other powerful nations, using force to gain wealth or power, and maintaining a constant image of strength, even when it is not acceptable.

Okonkwo supports the theme of order and structure as his whole life he was dominated by the fear of failure and weakness. This fear was due to his father’s laziness and lack of parenting. Okonkwo’s childhood allowed him to better his situation by ruling with a heavy hand.

Okonkwo thinks he is the owner of his household and he shows no mercy to anyone who angers him. “He ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives…lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness.” (Achebe, Chapter 2, p.8). Okonkwo beats his children and wives because of his temper which is influenced by the Igbo society; he puts on a hard exterior because he is afraid of being weak and unsuccessful. At one point, he attempts to kill his second wife with a gun because he thinks she is the cause of a tree’s death. In order to prove his power and strength, without thinking of the consequences, Okonkwo beats his youngest wife during the week of peace - a week when the village celebrates peace and who ever disrupts the peace will be punished by Ala, the earth goddess (Lycos, online). “His first two wives ran out in great alarm pleading with him that it was the sacred week. But Okonkwo was not the man to stop beating somebody half-way through, not even for the fear of a goddess.” (Achebe, Chapter 4, p.21). Okonkwo lives in a male dominant society where men are pressured to be strong and successful; because of these influences, Okonkwo develops an inner

In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Revised Edition, Paulo Freire discusses two different types of education: “banking” and problem-posing. The banking concept of education is when teachers “make deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat” (318), and ‘problem posing’ is when the teachers and students are equal. Instead of being treated as human beings that have their own thoughts and ideas, students are treated as containers that are simply filled by a powerful being, a teacher. In school, teachers are dominants that provide knowledge to the students, the subordinates; the knowledge that students learn are limited to what they’re taught by teachers. Similarly, in Kurt Wimmer’s ‘Equilibrium’, Librians are treated as reservoirs for knowledge.

The banking concept of education is a tern used by Firere to explain the education system. He states that the education system teaches “students to memorize mechanically the narrated account. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teachers”. As a whole he states that the education system needs to be changed. His concept still applies to the education system today, even though it was written decades prior. The Banking Concept of Education accurately describes public high schools and how the standardized tests and state requirement have changed the teaching styles. These new teaching styles have forced students to memorize and regurgitate information.

Throughout the novel Okonkwo experiences numerous consequences as a result of his flaw. This is unlike the Aristotelian model that proposes a single turning point. The reader understands Okonkwo’s fear as the motivation behind his actions. One instance is when he beats his wife during the peace week. Despite the punishment that would entail the beating, Okonkwo feels justified.

Already falling apart due to the disparity of values such as action for power and justice, the tidal wave of foreign religion exposes the community’s battle between violence and peace. When faced with newcomers, the community answers with peace, planning to stay inactive and ostracize the Christians. On the other hand, Okonkwo immediately responds by crying out for war and turning to violence as a safehaven, saying “until the abominable gang was chased out of the village with whips there would be no peace”(139). The direct pairing of violence and peace stresses the imbalance of the community and the negative effect of individual values on the well being of Umuofia. Yet another crack begins to form in the cultural roots of Umuofia as Okonkwo takes action against the Christians while the others remain inactive and resort to

Okonkwo's fear of being perceived as weak tragically leads to him to be unnecessarily violent and excessively prideful. These two fatal flaws lead to Okonkwo’s own emotional isolation, and his inevitable downfall. Driven by the fear of being seen as weak and emasculated, Okonkwo exhibits hyper masculinity and rage. Although this behavior initially leads to success in the patriarchal society of Umofia, rage is his greatest bane: it masks his compassion and pusillanimity. Onkonkwo’s obsession to never appear feminine is driven to the extreme. He denies affection even to his own family, “never show[ing] any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger. To [Okonkwo] show[ing] affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength.” (pg. 28). Okonkwo whose “whole life [is] dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.” (pg. 13) suppress his compassion in order to appear important and manly. Ironically this creates a stark juxtaposition between his own fear and his position as an alpha male. Rather than being masculine and courageous, Okonkwo just creates tension within his family and within himself. The pinnacle of this extreme hypermasculinity is when Okonkwo ignores the wisdom of the elder Ezeudu, and violently kills his “son” Ikamafuna: “As the man who had cleared his throat drew up and raised his machete, Okonkwo looked away. He had heard Ikamafuna cry “My father, they have killed me!”

Okonkwo is first introduced as a very successful and wealthy member of his tribe (Achebe 1). Prior to colonization, the clan was unified under a system led by those who were assertive, and strong willed clansmen, and the natives were dedicated to their heritage and preserving ancestral traditions. Achebe includes this tranquility and flow of the tribe in order to give a sense of content and comfort to Okonkwo’s character within his tribal life, since it is the only way of life he has ever known. His prestige, honor, and success is all that he is used to, therefore once the cultural collision strikes, Okonkwo’s self-identity falls into a

Okonkwo wrestles with his fear that any sign of weakness will cause him to lose control of his family, position in the village, and even himself. Like many heroes of classical tragedy, Okonkwo’s tragic flaw, fear, also makes him excessively proud. Okonkwo’s downfall is a result of the changes created by the coming of the British Colonisers to Igbo. The introduction of the Colonisers into the novel causes Okonkwo’s tragic flaw to be exacerbated. Okonkwo construes change as weakness, and as a result of his interpretation, Okonkwo only knows how to react to change through anger and strength. He derives great satisfaction, “hubris” or proud arrogance, from the fact that he is a traditional, self made man and thinks that to change would mean submitting to an outside force (Christianity).

Basic or primary functions of a bank are very important in nature. These functions provide base to the whole operation of the bank. The basic functions of a bank are as follows :