Why Ask Why?
At times no one indeed questions why events occur. Society never really asks why the world is the way it is. Yet, this is one of the most fundamental actions people need to understand. Take education for instance. Children go to school to learn the basic understanding of reading, writing, math and science. This then helps to have a better comprehension of the world around them. However, their knowledge is just handed to them without question. They simply receive it and find that there is no connection to their learning experience. Therefore, they find the content useless and begin to lose interest. This is a concept developed by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and theorist. He created this idea that people need to question why we learn the knowledge we do.
By not asking why society becomes the opposite of critical, this is ignorance. People then are less open minded and begin to deteriorate in their critical skills. It is just the fact that if society does not question authority or rules their no knowing of the purpose. Then when one does not know of the purpose then it is defeating the purpose. Basically, when people do not ask the crucial question of why content itself looses its significance, creating the idea of ‘banking’.The example of the student simply learning and gaining knowledge is the concept of banking. The teacher simply hands the student knowledge without question and the student receives also without question. The teacher is handing ‘money’ to the student and does not share anything else besides that. Thus, neither the teacher nor the student really shares their complete experiences and so both lose interest. That’s why it’s important to question ‘why’ because then, as with this example (Freire’s theory), that knowledge is lost and therefore, the sharing of the pre generations’ knowledge of the world is faded. This then leaves the post generations ignorant of the world around them.
By not asking why society becomes the opposite of critical, this is ignorance. People then are less open minded and begin to deteriorate in their critical skills. It is just the fact that if society does not question authority or rules their no knowing of the purpose. Then when one does not know of the purpose then it is defeating the purpose. Basically, when people do not ask the crucial question of why content itself looses its significance, creating the idea of ‘banking’.The example of the student simply learning and gaining knowledge is the concept of banking. The teacher simply hands the student knowledge without question and the student receives also without question. The teacher is handing ‘money’ to the student and does not share anything else besides that. Thus, neither the teacher nor the student really shares their complete experiences and so both lose interest. That’s why it’s important to question ‘why’ because then, as with this example (Freire’s theory), that knowledge is lost and therefore, the sharing of the pre generations’ knowledge of the world is faded. This then leaves the post generations ignorant of the world around them.