Banking Education
by Paulo Freire
the teacher teaches and the students are taught;
the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;
the teacher thinks and the students are thought about;
the teacher talks and the students listen - meekly;
the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;
the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply;
the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher;
the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it;
the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his own professional authority, which he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;
the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.
(Paulo Freire, 1970, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [New York: Continuum], p. 59.)