In terms of actual pedagogy , Freire is best known for his attack on what he called the `` banking '' concept of education , in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher .
Freire believed that `` education makes sense because women and men learn that through learning they can make and remake themselves , because women and men are able to take responsibility for themselves as beings capable of knowing - of knowing that they know and knowing that they do n't '' ( Freire , 2004 , p. 15 ) In terms of actual pedagogy , Freire is best known for his attack on what he called the `` banking '' concept of education , in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher .