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Banking education is a term used by Paulo Freire to describe and analyze the traditional education system. The name refers to the metaphor of students as containers into which educators must put knowledge. This reinforces a lack of critical thinking and knowledge ownership in students, which in turn reinforces oppression, as well as it, misrepresents Freire's understanding of knowledge as the result of a human, creative process. REFLECTION