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  • Essay / The banking concept of education in the death of Paulo Friere...

    Keating, and now by the director, Mr. Nolan. Nolan brings the reference back to the introductory essay by “Dr. J. Evans Pritchard Ph. D.” Upon reading this passage, symbol of the return of the banking concept to the classroom, the students who were members of the society of dead poets rise up in rebellion against Mr. Nolan and against his oppression. This scene shows the two educational methods present throughout the film and described by Friere. Nolan attempts to impose the concept of banking on students and ignores the principles of the problem that poses to the critically thinking students that they have become: "Education as an exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with a ideological intention (often not perceived by students). educators) to indoctrinate them so that they adapt to the world of oppression” (Frière