Authoritarian pedagogy produces docility that serves the oppressor’s interests

Evidence

The banking model is inherently authoritarian. It positions the teacher as the active agent and the student as the passive recipient. It produces not critical consciousness but docility. And docility, in the structural analysis, serves the interests of the oppressor rather than the oppressed. — , The Rod and the Child, 5000

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the series’ recurring theme that discipline practices reproduce social hierarchies; connects to Freire’s banking model as discussed. — connects to: Education must turn man from reaction into action; Non-corporal elite pedagogy yields commensurately substantial intellectual output. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1776; Sufi pedagogy holds love-blows transform hearts while force-blows merely bruise flesh — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3587 (+13 more)
• DEFINE: Defines what the banking model does functionally — not just deposits knowledge but instills docility.

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian leaders surround themselves with subordinates who never question them #exemplifies (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 327
• Group-based discipline can coerce as powerfully as individual violence #expands (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 5601
• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone #complicates (0.55)
• Common sense can be worked upon to transform it into conscious class struggle #complicates (0.50)