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Innocent Until Proven Guilty

anything that happens to a person; anything that is seen, done, felt, or lived through. Life itself, is an experience full of experiences. All of these happenings, good and bad, are the sum of a person’s experiences called the “frame of reference.” This is the very composition that makes a person who he is. But when does one cease to rely on outside factors to prompt these experiences? When does one begin to rely on himself to create them? Until a person reaches this point he declines to take credit for his actions and lacks responsibility. Until this point he is innocent. But when this change occurs he must be independent and self-reliable. A person starts to learn this responsibility in school. When a person enters into the realm of education and is generally knowledgeable, he is then guilty of his actions. To educate means to train or instruct mentally and morally; to provide schooling for. In time, children get older and start this process of education. Many of their experiences will occur at school or happen as a result of being there. Children are faced with different challenges in school that shape their character. It is here when they begin to initiate self-responsibility. Paulo Freire helps to explain this process in his essay, “The Banking Concept of Education:” Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge. Because they apprehend the challenge as inter- related to other problems within a total context, not as a theoretical question, the resulting comprehension tends to be increasingly critical and thus constantly less alienated. Their response to the challenge evokes new challenges, followed by new understandings; and gradually the students come to regard themselves as committed. (Freire, 215)Through educat...

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