Gato and Freire compair and contrast.

In our reading of “Against School” by John Gatto, and “The Banking Method of Education” by Paulo Frier, you begin to see a comparison in-between the two articles. Although the comparison ends with both of them agreeing that students who are uninterested to learn will not learn. John Gatto states that “Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it.” Basically he is saying that his students were completely uninterested in their topics and were unwilling to do their work. He then only further displays this idea by writing “They said they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around.” This idea that students need to stay curious and want to learn is mirrored in “The Banking Method of Education” where Paulo Frier states that “The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the student's creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed.” By forcing students to learn new things that the already know and cramming it in their minds, the students begin to dislike learning and loose their imagination to education. Now in y opinion the comparison ends hear. From the rest of Gattos article he only berates teachers and puts the blaming them as the first step to bad students “Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there.” He is basically saying that all teachers teach students to be bored and hate school. This is contradicted in Paulo Frier’s article where he states that the teachers and the students need to reach a mutual agreement on learning, “From the outset, her efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in people and their creative power. To achieve this, they must be partners of the students in their relations with them.” So in the end both Frier and Gatto agreed on one thing, but they also have ideas that completely contradict each other.