Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed – the banking and libertarian models of education

This is a summary of Paulo Freire’s explanation of the banking and libertarian models of education, from The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1996 Penguin Edition). The point of education and human action is “the individual’s ontological and historical vocation to be more fully human.” (37) Two models of education The banking model of education is …