Banking education fills submerged consciousness with slogans that deepen fear of freedom

Evidence

In their political activity, the dominant elites utilize the banking concept to encourage passivity in the oppressed, corresponding with the latter’s “submerged” state of consciousness, and take advantage of that passivity to “fill” that consciousness with slogans which create even more fear of freedom. This practice is incompatible with a truly liberating course of action, which, by presenting the oppressors’ slogans as a problem, helps the oppressed to “eject” those slogans from within themselves. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 274

Categorization

• DEFINE: The striking verb ‘eject’ — problem-posing works by surfacing oppressors’ internalized slogans as problems, not by counterposing new slogans.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal school reforms operate as Freirean banking education — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 943