Second Reading Questions

• Question 1: I am reminded of a time in my junior history class, where we were supposed to do some vocab homework. Our teacher just checked to see if the homework is done and didn’t even care what we had written, so i just wrote some random words in the homework, and she didn’t even notice. She was just finding another way to give us grades, she didn’t actually care if we had actually learned something. It was just about doing her job and not making an impact on her students. She was just making “deposits”, and not investing in her students.
• Question 2: In the essay he uses it to describe, the teachers and their ideas. They are so over powering that it prevents the students from actually learning. The teachers alienate them by talking down to the students, because they think they are more intelligent and are more experienced with the subject matter. I’m not too sure what he is trying to convey by using the word praxis. From the definition I found it doesn’t really relate to the essay.
• Question3: Freire talks about how teachers only treat their students as banks to be deposited and don’t allow them to be apart of the dialogue in the classroom. However, I think Freire is doing the same thing when wrtiting this essay because he just spews out his beliefs and doesn’t allow for the reader to stop and think about what he is saying. He uses big words and words from other languages that makes it hard to read continuously. I know that I have to stop and think about what is being said and then I get caught on a difficult word and lose all concentration. If he had made the essay a little easier to read, atleast for me, I would have been able to connect more with the essay and understand the points he is trying to make.