I get the feeling sometimes that most of the creative energy spent on courses is in designing the perfect syllabus and choosing the right readings to create the Platonic Course. What students learn is ...

M any years ago, the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire wrote persuasively against the “banking concept of education.” According to this model, supposedly wise teachers presented knowledge as a “gift” to ...

The “banking concept of education” stunts intellectual growth of students by turning them into receptacles of deposited information that has no real connection to ...