A brief analysis of The Banking Concept of Education

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…s theories and ideas. Children are not taught to be individuals and they are not taught to think for themselves. They are taught, for the most part, to be receptacles for the information the teacher wishes to deposit. They are not asked what they want. They are not asked what they are curious about or how they think. They are merely objects to train in a manner that makes them good citizens and depositors themselves.