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  • Essay / Education: A Journey: Education as a Journey - 1251

    In the film "Waiting For Superman", it highlights how some schools leave children behind two or more grade levels, making them unprepared for a higher level or worse. , which makes them unprepared for life. We also see that some fail to even keep students in schools, ending up turning into what is called a “dropout factory”. These failures come down to the teachers who pass on their knowledge to these new minds, as stated in "Ch. 2 Pedagogy of the Oppressed" that there are two types of teachers, a banking method teacher or a problem teacher. These two types of education have major effects on the lives of students, one of them can take you to higher levels of education, and the other can take you to one of these "factories of education". 'dropping out of school'. The “abandonment factories” are run by teachers of the banking method whom Paulo Freire describes as oppressors of knowledge, their method lacks critical thinking and individual teaching transforms students into machines devoid of any psychological depth, which it be educational or otherwise. On the other hand, we have problems with teachers, who encourage classroom discussion, focus more on students, use knowledge as a shareable entity with all students, and use education to free the mind from any limitation. But Malcolm What Malcolm , and it shows us that it doesn't matter what school you go to, what bad teacher you have, or what bad circumstances you live in. you can always achieve what you desire, only if you work hard for it