Group 1 comparing Lewis Black, Gatto, Freire, Mike Rose to movie Chalk.

in pedagogy of the oppressed, chapter 2, "The banking concept," Paolo Freire laments that education is largely about filling students' brains, like a bottle might be filled. We see this in the movie Chalk, when Mr. Lowrey....... [provide 2 or 3 sentences more]



Gatto - By the time I finally retired in 1991 I had more than enough reason to think of our schools - with their long term, cell block style, forced confinement of both students and teachers - as virtual factories of childishness.  In the movie Chalk we see Mr. Stroope confiscating a CD of photos from a student and telling the student that he is going to throw them away. Mr. Stroope then says he is kidding and throws them on his desk and tells the student to get them after class.  Mr. Stroope tries to get the kids to help him against a fellow teacher who he is in competition with for teacher of the year.  Mr Stroope flips desk over when he gets angry at student after losing the competition.


Freire - Mr. Stroope stifling students that know more than he does, as seen when he t
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of men as conscious beings - and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.  They must abandon the educational goal of deposit making and replace it with the posing of the problems of men in their relations with the world.   
In the movie Chalk we see this in how Mr. Lowrey is applying the banking concept on the first day of class.  Mr. Lowrey shotguns a question to a student before he has put out the information, he then has a list of things on the board that he is going to teach the kids and expects them to know the material verbatim.

Lewis Black - Mr Black makes the comment about how the us is behind in most categories, but we are number 1 in confidence.  In the movie Chalk we see how had the confidence to become a teacher, but when he actually got into the classroom Mr. Lowrey lacks confidence to actually teach.  Mr. Lowrey recognizes his lack of confidence and makes a plan to work on his confidence.

Mike Rose- We need to have more young people have an engaging and challenging education.  In the movie Chalk we see Mr. Stroope shutting down a boy because the boy had a large vocabulary.  Mr. Stroope tells the boy that he probably does not even know the meaning of the words he is using.  Mr. Stroops tells a girl who already knows a lot about history that she needs to keep it to herself.