Pedagogy of the Oppressed

I had a hard time with "banking education" because the article made it sound like students are just objects that we give information to. The article made students lifeless and I honestly felt very uncomfortable reading it because I strongly disagree with the "attitudes and practices" of oppressive society. Part of the article, which I placed below, is everything that shouldn't be part of how teaching and learning between teacher and student should be:

• the teacher teaches and the students are taught;
• the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;
• the teacher thinks and the students are thought about;
• the teacher talks and the students listen -- meekly;
• the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;
• the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply;
• the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher;
• the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it;
• the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;
• the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.

I never want my students to feel like I am all knowledgeable because I do not know everything. I want them to understand that I am just as much of a human as they are. I'm going to make mistakes that they will hopefully correct me on. I will learn from my students just as they will learn from me. It's not just me feeding them information for them to write down, memorize and repeat. I'm not trying to create robots, I want to help my kiddos grow into adults, and have actual conversations with me about what we are talking about in class. There will be days when I have to talk at them when learning a concept, but I want them to feel free to ask questions, speak up when they don't understand because that's what learning is. I believe learning should be a conversation or discussion about things that are being taught because not everyone will understand the teacher right away. 

I don't want to "oppress" my students. I want them to be involved with their learning because it's THEIR learning experience. I want them to question me if they feel like something I said wasn't right, I want them to be part of the decisions I make when it's appropriate and I want them to have fun in my classroom.