Freire, Gatto, and Some Agreements

Out of all of the readings over these few units, I see Freire and Gatto's writings to be probably the most similar in aspects of them agreeing on mutual points although there are some things they may not agree on. Freire calls it the Banking Concept and Gatto explains a similar concepts of how schools just dump concepts on kids without letting them grow and think on their own. So in a way they never grow into adults, they just become part of the machine (society) that school prepares them for. Gatto mentions that in Against School when he says "Theorists from Plato to Rousseau to our own Dr. Inglis knew that if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of Responsibility and Independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up".  Freire mentions something very similar in The Banking Concept of Education when he says "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacle" to be "filled" by the teacher".