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Somebody leads,

Somebody follows,

Like when you chew,

You automatically swallow.

No rhyme, no reason,

It’s just how it is.

THE BANKING CONCEPT,

It’s just how we live.

We put the world into your head how we see it to be,

We pretend your living dead,

And without us,

Unable to think or to be.

Necrophilism dominates the lives of the many,

When no one objects to the words of the few.

You exist as you’re told,

You do what we tell you to do.

You have great potential, you are smart, and you’ll do just fine,

So do something great with your life,

As long as it has nothing to do with mine.

One plus one is only two.

Nothing else, no other way.

Have you got in stuck in your head now?

Show me to get your A.

The world is round, the sky is blue.

Why? Because that’s what we tell you.

Got a question?

We have THE answer.

Got an opinion?

That doesn’t matter.

Do you agree to subject to our ways?

Great, now your 100% OK!

But is there another way to live?

One where ideas are shared and you take as well as give?

One where the student is teacher,

The teacher the student,

Where problem posing means equivalence,

And equivalence is prudent?

Yes it exists,

But not right here, not right now,

In OUR world,

Where we tell you how.

To free from this you must reject the bank, liberate your mind,

Be self aware, be alive,

Be who you are deep down inside,

And leave the ideas of others far behind.

Go against the stream, go uphill,

Go forward, go backwards,

Just don’t stand still.

Paulo Freire explains our meager existence,

Of conforming, oppression, and lack of resistance.

So why should you care?

Because if you don’t you’ll live unaware,

Of all that surrounds you,

Of what’s really there.

But for now just do what they say.

Who are they?

The leaders the teachers the parents,

And all those you obey.