Fire Project: Moving Towards Contextualization -- "Why Ask Why"
P. 71 "The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases..."
- The student becomes part of the banking concept. The banking concept or the process of memorizing information to later forget describes the process of how students learn today. We record (write verbatim), memorize information to get an A, and repeat to ace standardized tests. In the process of learning that way, we give up on
Why ask why?
It is important to ask why because then and only then can we free ourselves from enslavement of the mind. By that, I mean being easily manipulated. I believe if we stop asking why we are letting others have a pass at us – be vulnerable to following things that may not be true but are enforced to trick you into doing things you may not have to. I think it is hard for someone to stop asking why when they have done it all their lives. It becomes second hand nature where I do not have to be told to ask why because I am already in the process of doing it.
Although not everyone asks why, it scares me. It is scary because some people do not question the things they are told even when they do not even seem logical or rational at that. If people did not ask why, we would still have slavery, segregation in schools, no rights, and disenfranchisement among other things. It is through asking why that people grow consciousness about the things that are around us. This is where I do not get why lower and middle class decide to be republicans. I do not agree with the fact that some people want our lives to be the way they were before the Bill of Rights were ratified. It would be a scary world if that ever happened. Life is already backwards as is and decreasing more rights is not going to do us any better.
All in all, the importance of asking why – to question what things are is as simple as breathing, it is an important part we must do in order to keep our rights that are ours.
- The student becomes part of the banking concept. The banking concept or the process of memorizing information to later forget describes the process of how students learn today. We record (write verbatim), memorize information to get an A, and repeat to ace standardized tests. In the process of learning that way, we give up on
Why ask why?
It is important to ask why because then and only then can we free ourselves from enslavement of the mind. By that, I mean being easily manipulated. I believe if we stop asking why we are letting others have a pass at us – be vulnerable to following things that may not be true but are enforced to trick you into doing things you may not have to. I think it is hard for someone to stop asking why when they have done it all their lives. It becomes second hand nature where I do not have to be told to ask why because I am already in the process of doing it.
Although not everyone asks why, it scares me. It is scary because some people do not question the things they are told even when they do not even seem logical or rational at that. If people did not ask why, we would still have slavery, segregation in schools, no rights, and disenfranchisement among other things. It is through asking why that people grow consciousness about the things that are around us. This is where I do not get why lower and middle class decide to be republicans. I do not agree with the fact that some people want our lives to be the way they were before the Bill of Rights were ratified. It would be a scary world if that ever happened. Life is already backwards as is and decreasing more rights is not going to do us any better.
All in all, the importance of asking why – to question what things are is as simple as breathing, it is an important part we must do in order to keep our rights that are ours.