Humanization of education

When we think of education, bureaucracy, work hierarchies, and traditional stereotypical images of schools and universities usually come to mind, and we often evoke the image of blackboards, students, and teachers, images of traditional learning institutions built on domination and power that limit the possibility of creativity, thinking, and analysis, where words are emphasized rather than facts. And ideas, with an emphasis on logic rather than emotion, are in fact the belief among teachers that students benefit from more traditional teaching methods than sharing and dialogue. This is partly because it is easier for students to understand what is being taught when the material is organized so that they can memorize it and understand it clearly at every step, and then the students are evaluated based on their memorization of the material, as the Brazilian thinker Freire (1968) explains in his book Education of the Oppressed: What distinguishes indoctrination is its condescending tone and its inability to bring about change, and the students’ role is limited to memorizing, remembering, and repeating the sentences they heard without delving into their content, and it was called the term “banking education”, which is the deposit of the teacher - the active party - with what he has in the mind of the student, so he receives the information and keeps it. until it is needed at the time of the test; On this basis, the people who are enslaved are the ones who lack creativity, the absence of transformation and knowledge, and in the banking concept of education, knowledge here is a gift granted by those who consider themselves well versed in knowledge to those who consider them to know nothing...

Freire presents an alternative to banking education and stresses the need for humane education and educating students about themselves and their capabilities and transferring them from the negative field to the active field so that the individual can express himself freely and courageously, with strength and think critically, instead of submitting to the instructions of others and reducing their value and ideas, but rather through dialogue Permanent with the other and critical analysis. Through emancipatory education, we provide a place for freedom, self-understanding, and capabilities. It is a new system that Freire called “problem solving.” A system based on hope, love, and humility. Education with love is a central idea in the process of acquiring knowledge. Therefore, the essence of educational development is success that stems from love and hope, because this is necessary to obtain solidarity and participation in order to change oppressive ideologies and practices in public education.

What distinguishes banking education from problem-solving education:

Banking education resists dialogue, but problem-solving education considers dialogue an important matter.

- Banking education treats students as auxiliary tools for education, while education that depends on solving problems makes them active thinkers.

- Education depends on solving problems on creativity and stimulates realistic thinking and real work, and therefore it is an authentic work that depends on the truth of the word. Banking education is an education that depends on dominance. .

- Banking education is an education whose outputs come in the form of stereotyped and repeated patterns of human beings.. that contribute to perpetuating the status quo with all its disadvantages and disadvantages.. so that society can hardly be liberated from the captivity of those models and images that are fixed and reproduced one from the other.

Freire stressed that dialogue helps students develop a critical awareness of social, political and economic contradictions so that they can take action against those who oppress them.

In conclusion, it is not possible to change the conditions and lives of students without changing the methods and methods of education

Education with humanity is an essential element in establishing social democracy and achieving social justice.