Comparison of Mary Louise Pratt and Paulo Freire

Mary Louise Pratt and Paulo Freire|: A comparison

Freire criticized current forms of learning as decreasing students to the rank of passive objects to be acted upon by the educator. In this traditional form of learning it is the job of the teacher to deposit in the minds of the scholars, advised to be empty in an unconditional ignorance, the bits of information that constitute knowledge. Freire called this banking education.

very dark; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">According to Mary Louise Pratt the aim of banking learning is to immobilize the persons inside living structures of power ...