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The "Banking" Concept of Education is an interesting insight on the ideological structure of public education and the interpellation it creates within its curriculum. Paulo Freire has very fascinating theories on the banking of education and he creates a sonority with his approach in depicting the hegemony that occurs within school walls. Freire discusses topics which are very appealing; such as the main concept that students are "containers" or depositories and teachers merely deposit information …

…actions which can effect society. The oppressed seem to regulate this "pathology" by classifying, consolidating, commercializing, and controlling the oppressed through the "banking" concept of education. The Oppressed consider the oppressed as objects that the world is looking at, when the oppresed are inside the world looking at it. This concept regards the oppressed as spectators looking at the world when we (oppressed) are looking at the world rather than the world looking at us.