1. In discussing opinions one may find authentic liberation or an example of Problem-Posing education. Multiple answers mixed with different thought processes can teach both the speaker-listener and the listener-speaker. For example politics, or evolution vs. creation, or michigan vs. ohio state. Discussion questions that can be answered in two different forms. One may not convince another to completely change their beliefs but one may make someone conscious of consciousness.
2. The ability of humans to achieve praxis is a driving force that puts us above other beings, the ability to comprehend and question reality places us above animals. Therefore our ability to create knowledge through questioning reality is praxis. Alienating ourselves is separating us from being “containers” from being part of the banking educational system. Alienation as a possible form of liberation.
3. Freire contradicts himself greatly in this article, he is teaching us of his method and we are the containers becoming full with every word read. Any belief he writes of, any idea he attempts to convey to the reader relates the idea of a deposit within the reader. On page 260, the last paragraph states that “the teacher’s thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students thinking.” This is apparent in his own teachings because they are rather authentic, and now as a reader and a student we seem to have obtained an authentic knowledge.
