Paulo Friere wrote the book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." In this book there is a concept called the, "Banking concept of Education." "Education becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat, this is the "banking" concept of education." The Banking Concept of Education is similar to students who are zombies; they go to class to class and listen to the teacher, but they are not allowed to question what is being taught. In the Banking Concept of Education, Friere is trying to persuade the readers to believe that the traditional way of teaching isn't the way we should teach are students. Friere mentions that students are slaves but, "Unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher." Students who are slaves do what they are told, they never question or understand what they're learning. The Banking Concept says student do not ask questions. Like slaves in 1619-1865, they couldn't ask questions; they took orders and took what there masters said as to be true. As students and as human beings we are creative, but as Friere has said creativity is repressed to suite the oppressor. The oppressor is the teacher, they were taught to pass on the tradition of oppressing the students and molding them into what they want in society. "The banking approach to adult education, for example, will never propose to students that they critically consider reality." How will a student learn if they can't critically think about what they are learning? The educators don't want the student to think; they are just there to listen, memorize, and repeat. Freire says that the Banking Concept of Education assumes that the student is ignorant and that the teacher is the only one with knowledge. Freire argues that until there is a way to encourage better c