Comparing Gatto & Freire

     Other than his idea of Radical Democracy and how everyone should be represented equally and have the same amount of rights, I didn't understand much of what Freire was saying. So luckily what I did understand, the Radical Democracy, ties into what Gatto said. He many times pointed out how the K-12 education system made the students conform to one idea of what the students should be like. He also talked about a "selecetive function" that the education system also brought upon students that didn't give students the same amount of equality because it discriminate against the students that weren't in the higher, Advanced Placement classes.  They also both assume that the student knows nothing. In Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education” he plainly points out that he doesn’t think that the students know anything. He says, “the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing;” demeaning students in the same fashion Gatto does. Other than wanting equality in the education system and thinking that students didn’t know anything while teachers knew everything, I don’t see any other similarities because I didn’t understand Freire’s essay very much. I couldn’t contrast them either because I didn’t know what he was talking about most of the time.