Banking model of education

[1] The term banking model of education was first used by Paulo Freire in his highly influential book Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

[1][2] Freire describes this form of education as "fundamentally narrative (in) character"[3]: 57  with the teacher as the subject (that is, the active participant) and the students as passive objects.

This is the "banking" concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits.

Teachers are the epistemological authority in this system; students' pre-existing knowledge is ignored, aside from what was expected to be 'deposited' into them earlier.

The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.