Inspired by Freire himself, hooks’ work can be applied to Freire’s ‘banking’ concept of education. In “Teaching to Transgress,” hooks questions the divide between theory and practice, claiming not only that theorizing is indeed a political act, but also that theory should be applicable to the widest audience of people, not abstracted from real-life situations. In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” Freire criticized the teaching content that is “detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that engendered them and could give them significance.” Freire writes that only through experience, or practice, one can truly learn, not through the memorization of content distanced from any real-life application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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