The "banking concept" is only worth the information teachers feed to students, until those students decides to think, question, and attempt by allowing themselves to be human, thus increasing their worth and creativity. .
When students to go school, they should have a yearning to learn and gain a better understanding of the world around them. Freire states, "The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable" (318). This suggests that the teachers are giving their students a false perception of the world. The students are given the impression that reality is unchangeable and boring when in actuality, it is the complete opposite. Freire expands on this idea saying, "His task is to 'fill' the students with the contents of his narration – contents which are detached from reality" (318). Freire is implying that the teachers are not even trying to associate what they are teaching with something in the real world that the students can identify with. If students cannot identify what they are learning then they cannot be expected to retain that information after being tested on it. The information will have no other significance to them. A major part of the "banking concept" is that students are considered nothing more than "'receptacles' to be 'filled' by the teacher" (Freire 318). By using the word "receptacle", it can be assumed that Freire is comparing them to trash bins. The trash that the students are being filled with is the information from the teachers that have no value to the students. .
Aside from the information not meaning anything to students, Freire also suggests that .
the students do not mean anything to the teachers either. Freire says:.
Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat.