Banking Education System Essay

1. Introduction

1.1 Background It has been said many times that education is the key to success, I believe that education is the key to purposeful social transformation. Education plays an important role in making progress in social transformation in South Africa. Because education is teaching and passing of values, knowledge and skills to others. Education does not only happen at schools but it also takes at home, churches, university and our communities. The role of education is to change the way we as people think and do things because the more you are taught about values like respect this can change the society, because if as people we respect each other this means that South Africa is going to be the place of peace and harmony because

Banking education makes learners to be passive objects because learners don’t have anything to say about their learning but educators tells them what to do. In this type of education teachers are the ones that know or have knowledge and they just pass it to learners without learner participation. It’s like knowledge is a gift that teachers just give to learners and the learner just have to open the gift. I believe that in order for education to be successful and transform our society in South Africa educators and learners must be involved in a dialogue whereby a teacher gives learners knowledge and learners must also participate to share their experiences with the rest of the class, this will help learners to build knowledge from their real life experiences. Freire Suggested that we use the new education system called ‘’problem posing model of education’’. In this type of education a teacher and a learner must confabulate, consider, argue and examine their background, contact and proof of their feelings and knowledge of the universe together. By doing so this is going to help to make education to transform our society because education will turn learners into creative and critical thinkers

Ontology is about concern about things that exists in the universe, so banking education makes learners to be unable to think about things that exist in the universe because learners are not given an opportunity to think, to come up with ideas and students are not given an opportunity to talk but they only listen and by just listening one will not transform education because for education to transform the society, everyone opinions must be taken into consideration so that we know the needs and wants of people in the society, this can help to transform the society. Banking education hinders learners from knowing the dependence between variety aspects of society and asking the ontological questions such as what does it mean to be a good person? If children asked themselves the questions and answer them this is going to make learners to know who are they and this will make them to behave and have values which can transform the society. Anthropology pulls and construct over facts from social and relating to biology sciences. The epistemological view on banking education is that learners cannot construct their own knowledge because the teacher gives them knowledge and learners just listen and do what they are told to do. Epistemology sees education as philosophy of knowledge form so the problem posing model of education which is the