Learners trained by banking education reflexively defer to the teacher even mid-dialogue

Evidence

Not infrequently, peasants in educational projects begin to discuss a generative theme in a lively manner, then stop suddenly and say to the educator: “Excuse us, we ought to keep quiet and let you talk. You are the one who knows, we don’t know anything.” — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 156

Categorization

• XREF: Directly diagnostic for the reader’s redesign goal — this is the observable behavior a problem-posing redesign must be engineered to overcome; pairs with the banking model accounts elsewhere in the book. — connects to: Teaching is continual reinterpretation rather than transmission of fixed content — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 267; Compulsory education makes students a captive audience whose attention can be monetized — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 9; Contradictions in mentors can be held within a learning process rather than dismissed (+4 more)