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In Paulo Freire’s ‘The “Banking” Concept of Education’ the author uses several similes, metaphors and analogies to bring across his main point – the relationship between teachers and students, and the way the teaching process takes place. He feels they way students are taught isn’t as effective as it could be. The main analogy Freire uses, is that teachers “deposit” information into the students’ minds, rather than actually having the students not only learn …

…eliminating the gap of difference that exists between the two. Not only does this eliminate the boredom that often occurs in classrooms, but actually is motivation for students to speak out sharing what they know, which further increases their knowledge, as well as their peers. This selection by Freire could be summed up by a very fitting quote by Plutarch, “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”