Topic > Education that poses problems: the pedagogy of the oppressed…

Moreover, by allowing students the ability to take control of their own education and decide what they want to learn and how they want to learn it, the transition from receptacle to learning can be made a contributing member of society. The ideal classroom would focus on students' needs and developments, not primarily on what the teacher wants to teach. When a teacher approaches a learning environment, they do so from a singular perspective, one that does not take into account the diverse student body they are supposedly addressing. This means that the teacher talks while the students listen and the teacher knows everything while the students know nothing (73). Working under these conditions means that a teacher can never see his or her students as people because the continuous flow of information to students turns them into receptacles, and the more information they retain, the better the receptacles are (72). Students will never be equal as long as the learning environment takes away their humanity. But in reality the teacher needs the students, just like him