... applying the banking concept method. There were forty to fifty girls in each homeroom, and it was hard to deal with each one of the students, and they didn't have the time to get to know each student better. They made us memorize long study guides and questionnaires. The only way to score good grades was memorizing those guides literally. Freire was right when he said "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into 'containers,' into 'receptacles' to be filled by the teacher." We didn't analyze at all, we didn't understand what we were memorizing. It was really hard because I would get nervous or anxious during my tests and since I memorize without understanding it was so easy to forget. It also happens that you just learn for a short period of time, because after a ...

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