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...... Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in "changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them," (1) for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated. To achieve this, the oppressors use the banking concept of education in conjunction with a paternalistic social action apparatus, within which the oppressed receive the euphemistic title of "welfare recipients." They are treated as individual cases, as marginal persons who deviate from the general configuration of a "good, organized and just" society. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society which must therefore adjust these "incompetent and lazy" folk to its own patterns by changing their mentality. These marginals need to be "integrated," "incorporated" into the healthy society that they have "forsaken." --- (Freire 1993, p. 71)
Freire referes to the lecture, didactic, style education system, within the United States as a banking system of education, where those who are a part of the minority are taught a monocultural set of standards and beliefs, in a manner of attempting to control them to a greater degree, rather than determining their value and allowing multicultural expression.

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