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For this assignment, we were instructed to read Ch. 8 of "Educational Foundations" and put post it notes in the text. We were supposed to mark places where we became conscious of our own thinking process. For example, we should mark questions we have, things we wonder about, things that remind us of past experiences, etc. Chapter 8 of the book talked about the banking concept of education. Much like depositing checks into one's bank account, teachers attempt to deposit checks filled with knowledge into the minds of their students.  The problem with this is that students are not being communicated with, but are instead being lectured and being told the difference between right and wrong. They are also just memorizing information and not using it. This concept of teaching can often be called narrative education also. One place that I marked in the text was the part at the beginning of the chapter where they described it as narrative education. One thing really came to mind when I read that. Narrative education can be a big problem for kids because it can harm their comprehension skills. If they grow up learning to just memorize things and not actually obtain information, what good will that do? The next thing that I became conscious of while I was reading was that this banking theory is very immobilizing. What I mean by this is that students are not able to move forward in their learning if they are just taught to take in information and then spit it out on an assessment and forget about it. Students often have to use material they used in the past for the future. Students will struggle immensely if they learn this way. The banking theory describes teachers as people who know all and students who know nothing and the teachers should be able to learn from their students too so they can keep an open mind.