Liberation itself can be turned into a banking deposit by would-be revolutionaries

Evidence

Unfortunately, those who espouse the cause of liberation are themselves surrounded and influenced by the climate which generates the banking concept, and often do not perceive its true significance or its dehumanizing power. Paradoxically, then, they utilize this same instrument of alienation in what they consider an effort to liberate. Indeed, some “revolutionaries” brand as “innocents,” “dreamers,” or even “reactionaries” those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation—the process of humanization—is not another deposit to be made in men. Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking methods of domination (propaganda, slogans—deposits) in the name of liberation. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 227

Categorization

• QUESTION: Freire names the risk that the facilitator already holding ‘correct consciousness’ will deposit it — precisely the critique this reader wants to contest his method with.
• DEFINE: Key definition: ‘praxis’ as the inseparable action-and-reflection upon the world — the necessary ground for redesigning a learning situation.
• XREF: connects to: Identity adopted as liberation can harden into a new form of imprisonment — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1078