Q The Assignment: Paulo Freire's original tome on education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, from which our chapter excerpt, "The 'Banking' Concept of Education," is taken, was originally published in 1968. But, as with any piece worth reading, the relevance of the material to the present-day must always be considered and reevaluated. In this light, you are asked to consider Freire's piece and discuss it within the context of its applicability to modern times. In other words, for a thesis that is nearly 50 years old, how relevant do you suppose Freire's words still are? Is Freire's work still a manageable nonfictional work that bears relevance to the modern times in which we all live? And, in closing, consider this subject, in part, a more thorough extension of sentence four of the precis format. Here's how this thing will work: 1. The deadline for your first post, wherein you offer your response to the above prompt, and your two reply posts (to other students in the class) is coming due soon. Your original post should be at least 250 words, and your two reply posts at least 100 words each. 2. The points for this assignment will go into the "pre-writing" column, so they carry a significant weight. Partial posts, or posts not meeting the word count will guarantee you, at most, only partial credit. So no whining later about getting run over by the bus if you didn't bother getting out of the way. Other: Forgive me for stating the obvious, but please consider this task as originating from an academic epicenter, which is to say that your responses should be cogent, clean, and stylistically appropriate to the academic environment in which we're engaged. If you're expletive-happy and enamored with the use of "u," "i," emojis, or other similar vagaries, it's time to fall out of love. Or, in deference to Yoda, "You must unlearn what you have learned." Got it? Good. Now let's move on. Peace.