In the banking concept of education, truth and knowledge are wholly represented by the teacher; whom themselves submit to “a philosophy of knowing derived from logical and mathematical treatments of people, which holds the exclusive source of all legitimate knowledge as that which can be measured empirically.” In this instance, unbeknownst to most educators, they facilitate oppressive ways of knowing by objectifying their students, “dehumanizing them into “things” to be analyzed and (based off that analysis) dictated to the when, what, why and how of living.” They presuppose themselves as the authoritative avenue by which their students could ever legitimately know the world.

This is the educational paradigm of capitalism. In it any ideas that strengthen the institutionalization of it are good and valued, ingraining it in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of education that there is, while any ideas that are introspective, intuitive, or humanizing are shunned as ineffective/inefficient because they or their results cannot be quantified.

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