He loves control
And his greatest fear is the loss of that control, and he will fight tooth and nail to keep it
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- Dec 2021
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the teacher talks and the students listen—meekly
Of course, they are not listening "meekly." After about 10-20 minutes, there attention span is gone, and they are focused on something else.
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the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;
While this may have been the way of thinking decades ago, it is now common practice that a teacher must understand what his or her students know and don't know before beginning a lesson. This is then used to differentiate instruction.
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Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.
On top of this, students are traditionally taught as if they all learn the same and come to the classroom with the same background knowledge. Even though this is becoming less frequent, it is still uncommon for most teachers to differentiate their lessons based on student needs and backgrounds. This is a necessary skill for the teacher to possess.
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Or else he expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of the students.
This reminds me, at least to some extent, about how many teachers will teach certain content to the students, and even if a majority of them don't understand, will continue to move on to the next content. This practice only hinders learning, because students must have the appropriate background knowledge before that can understand new material.
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- Aug 2021
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ut, sooner or later, these contradictions may lead formerly passive students to turn against their domestication and the attempt to domesticate reality.
The active student is involved with their assignments. Where as, he or she can explain or teach the particular skill they are learning. On the other hand, the passive student is going through the motions. Are they really learning?
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The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the students creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed.
In this teaching mindset, creativity is non-existent, which can inhibit children from learning, in addition not allowing them to show what they really know.
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teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.
As a result of this, students are not truly learning the subject on a deeper knowledge level. They are just spitting out facts, in the hopes that they can pass a test. For example, my son is learning multiplication facts. He can tell me four time two is eight. However, he may not understand why the answer is eight. When he asks the teacher why, she says "just remember it's eight."
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The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable.
Unfortunately, this is very true. It is necessary for an educator to consider to the different experiences of the students.
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