Synthesis

The Banking Concept of Education by Paulo Freire and The Allegory of the Cave from The Republic, BookVII by Plato make very good points for being written hundreds to thousands of years apart. The way Plato taught was when ever one of his students made a comment or gave an answer, he would challenge it to make them think and to have the student suppost what they said with facts. Some teachers in today's society do not do this because they do not want to hurt the students feelings by challenging what they said. Paulo points out ten teaching ideals that were or are still in practice, these ideals shape an image that the student is a mindless robot that should do as told to do, nothing good can come from this way of teaching. Plato would have open disscusions to MAKE his students think, discuss, and present different ideas and methods. Yet despite their differences, poth pieces share some common themes. They both show how if a teacher is willing to be open to their students and if the students are willing to open their minds to different ways of thinking, then anything is possible.