Paolo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire speculated on a form of education that served to give students a way to think critically about the institutions that make up society, and create a more equitable world. Paulo expressed this educational philosophy in his first book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The book became very popular with many academics and teachers in the United States when the text eventually got translated to English. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo critiques the "banking" model of education. He explains that the banking model forces students to blindly regurgitate information from the teacher with little to no conversation that dives into the topic. This method severs all creativity and makes the teacher an autocratic ruler that cannot be challenged. Freire resisted these notions, insisting that the imbalanced power dynamics between the students and teachers was harmful to a student's critical thinking...