POSSESSION

My Most Cherished Possession

My Most Cherished Possession

My Most Cherished Possession

My most cherished possession is my ability to continuously learn. In many ways, what we know today about how people learn has been a matter of rediscovering some old truths. People do not learn effectively when they sit passively while an instructor attempts to fill their heads with information—an approach the great emancipatory educator Paulo Freire (1970) called the “banking model” of education. Human brains are not biological computers, taking in data and storing these data for later use, subject to external retrieval commands. We are, instead, much more complicated than that: ...