ChapterThe banking concept of education as an instrument of oppression— This introduces the central problem of the book: how to create an education system with oppressed people, for oppressed people, that will help them become more free. This introduces the central problem of the book: how to create an education system with oppressed people, for oppressed people, that will help them become more free. Freire defines oppression as an act of exploitation, violence, and a failure “to recognize other