Paolo Freire

Standardized testing goes against everything Freire protests in the chapter. Students would be filled with the same knowledge as one another and then be asked to dispense this knowledge on their test. Paolo Freire captures this idea by stating, “Narration leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content.” That we are just meant to filled, like some hard drive. Then if we fail to produce the content that was narrated to us, we are considered defective rather than unique. Freire seems to be getting at that everyone is an individual and we cannot learn as a whole. Everyone is their own person and therefore will develop their own set of ideas and thoughts. Meaning, they will not need to learn the same material as the person next to them. Education should occur on a more personal level and not this mass manufacturing sense that is. We are not just corporate robots requiring assembly at a young age. We deserve to create our own ideologies. Not force fed the spew of what others so blindly conceive as correct. To think that we should be evaluated on the same level as others around us is preposterous. We are showing our future generations that conformity is the path to success. That if you fall into the lines and learn just like the others, pass all the tests and that is how you make strides in life.