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I found the idea of "banking" to be interesting and some of the ideas that were purposed are fascinating and in a way, common sense. I think that some of the questions that the article poses are questions that we all, as humans, should at the very least consider. These questions include the critical thinking of our own constructed reality and how our reality may be different from somebody else. The idea of domestication is an important one because it deals with how we interpret and regurgitate information in a way that we domesticate it. This is a term that is used in English literature constantly, always being warned by professors to make sure that you do not domesticate what you're writing about. This quote from the text really elucidates as to how banking in education harms the minority while favoring the majority, "The more completely the majority adapt to the purposes which the dominant majority prescribe for them (thereby depriving them of the right to their own purposes), the more easily the minority can continue to prescribe. The theory and practice of banking education serve this end quite efficiently". This idea is something that reverberates along the proverbial notion that there are those in our contemporary society that are systematically pushed down, while others are uplifted. This is the hierarchical nature that we live in. Some people who come from different socioeconomic statuses, have dark skin, or have not inscribed themselves in the Anglo-patriarchal narrative are marginalized by those in power. Reading this article made me think about the philosopher John Rawls who purposed the idea behind the veil of ignorance. The veil of ignorance goes like this: "long with the original position, is a method of determining the morality of a certain issue (e.g., slavery) based upon the following thought experiment: parties to the original position know nothing about their particular abilities, tastes, and position within the social order of society." If everybody was placed behind the veil of ignorance, we would live in a much more idyllic world. Both in education, and in life.