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Raul Lopez-Rodriguez Failure to See Blood thirsty fat cats scour the country in search of those whose minds are ripe for molding. Set upon the manufacturing lines of our public school systems in the course of twelve years they’re shaped and formed. Through a system deemed “The Banking Concept of Education” we no longer create the minds that once brought this country to its highest point. No more will we be a country of innovation, but a country of deposit boxes each patiently waiting for the next deposit of information What we fail to see is how this form of education affects us. At one point we believed that this was the way that we should be taught. That threw this we could help create smarter, better students. But “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention”. The only foreseeable solution now would be Paulo Freires’ idea of a ‘Problem Posing Method of Education’. Through this we can see our future. This method not only betters our minds but helps better society. If we are taught to question, to analyze, to communicate, then maybe we can help change some of the problems that we face in today’s world. If we are no longer taught the values of our forefathers we can begin to abolish past conflicts. This method goes so much more past the classroom. It can help change our lives. When we propose a problem on a daily basis we soon create a habit of seeing what the problems are with each way of doing something. White one may see this only working for large scale problems; they don’t see the benefit of doing this in our own daily lives. If we see the problems of our actions. The implications that each one has and then create a solution for them we may be able to change who we are as a society. Straying away from the crimes of our pasts towards a better future. As we move past the classroom into the real world we have developed a skill of communication. A skill that helps move us from the norms we have become used to in the banking process. “People do not exist apart from the world, apart from reality, the movement must begin with the human-world relationship” (pg.6). Communication helps fill that gap we have created through the process of banking. We see that with communication things are invented. Ideas are transferred. And development flourishes. Communication helps open the doors to the possible. A word hardly used today. Had generation x been taught and not brainwashed then maybe as they got older they would have predicted the outcomes of their actions and avoided the financial crises we have. They could have help steer the stock market in a direction of possibilities instead of towards rock bottom. We because of the banking method we are now left with little hope of a possible change of luck in the near future.