Midterm Review

Short Answer - Quote Analysis

Sondra Perl
Mike Rose
James Moffett

Sample

“The felt sense is always there, within us. It is unifying, and yet, when we bring words to it, it can break apart, shift, unravel, and become something else.” –Perl

EXAMPLE – not passing

“Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive memorize, and repeat.” When Freire states, he was referring to banking. The students are just expecting to make deposits and the teacher just sits there. The teacher speaks and communicates but students have all the knowledge.

IMPROVED

When Freire states, “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive memorize, and repeat,” he was referring to what is know as the “banking concept”. The students are those who just sit and listen in a classroom and the teacher is viewed as the one who has all the knowledge. The classroom environment is set up in a way so that the teacher is looked at as the figure who speaks and tells the students what they need to know rather than exposing the student to a student centered classroom in which the student’s can share their own knowledge and perspectives. 

A-LEVEL 

Go beyond last example.