Citas educativas de mis estudiantes:

Christine  - 01:09pm Nov 6, 2000
I didn't realize how much our HACOP class has changed my perspective on standard teaching philosophies. Two weeks ago I suddenly realized that I was seeing the educational system through new eyes as I sat down with my sister and talked about her thoughts on her learning experience. I sifted through her homework and read the teacher's comments regarding her projects and papers. I now understand Friere because I know my sister is not seen as an individual by her teachers. For example, a project she worked hard on was given a poor grade because the teacher said that she showed no passion in her work. I wonder how the teacher grades passion. I wonder if he cares that she actually began to like learning about her report, and since she got it back filled with red marks, she doesn't have the desire to go beyond the assignment and retain what she learned. This banking type of learning fills me with spite. I will be a teacher in my life, and I am opening my eyes to the unfairness and the 'oppression' of this type of learning environment. I hope that I will grow more inspired to change this system. All of us have been in this learning environment, and only recently have we realized how destructive it is.
Regarding Zinn, my learning material was carefully picked according to the states agenda. I learned how to be a good American, and was taught that America was founded on golden rules with golden morals. We learned about the nice side of history; the winners side. We rarely heard about the black-marks that the' winners' did to human decency.
That is what I learned in the banking schools that I attended for the majority of my life. Luckily, my father is a politically UNcorrect historian that told me the bloody truths of the world, and he remains my Zinn, telling me how it is, not how it should be viewed.