Increase in Standardized Testing. Freire.

            What I understand from Paolo Freire’s story, “The Banking Concept of Education” is that teachers just fill their students minds with the things they want them to learn. According to Freire, teachers have their students, “record, memorize, and repeat” the things being taught without letting them actually realize the true meanings of what’s being taught. Paolo Freire compares students to containers being filled. The more a teacher has filled their containers, the smarter their students are. I think Paolo Freire thinks teachers only let their students learn what they are teaching about and they don’t give them the chance to extend their knowledge. I think Paolo Freire likes the problem-posing method better than the banking education because it gives students the chance to actually extend their knowledge and learn without a teacher telling them things and having to just memorize it. This helps students with real life problems because in reality someone isn’t telling you how to solve every problem in the world so it helps them learn how to think of solutions to solve real life problems. I don’t think Freire would like the increase in standardized testing because it is just testing the knowledge of students and if their teachers are just telling them what to memorize without actually giving them the chance to learn it then they aren’t really learning much.