Oppression in Education

The beginning of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" really hit me like a brick wall. I have never thought of teaching as oppressing students, but as it states in this chapter when as teachers have a hard time deciphering between serving as teachers and actually being teachers. We have to individualize and stop compartmentalizing the curriculum for students because it is forcing them into a mold of society that most people never break out of. I strongly believe that being a good teacher does not entail knowing everything and being able to dictate exactly what your students need to/should be learning but being open to an idea that students can teach you more than you may already know. To stop treating them as empty vessels but people who have something to offer your education and their peers education everyday. To think of a student as only an object to think and regurgitate answers is not teaching. To expect nothing more out our your students then memorization is not teaching.  To expect more of your students than the right answers but to use their creative capabilities to enhance their learning outcomes is what teaching should be about. This banking approach to education to me seems so robotic. It has not depth to education just expectations from people (students) to deliver what the teacher seeks. This also refers to what we expect as norms in society when it comes to forming to educational values that we seem to hold high. I think the best way to stay away from oppressing the education of students is to not always feel that being the teacher is the only way to teach but moving toward letting the students teach and then they have a connection to their education and a responsibility that is never given to them until adulthood. This is valuable to them because they step outside the conventions and see their own growth because of the teacher and become of themselves.