In this chapter, Freire (2000) investigates two types of educational systems and their purpose within wider society; embedded at the centre of his investigation is the dynamic between student-teacher relationships. The first system is referred to as the banking concept. According to Freire (2000), the banking concept propagates a deficit ideology through its inherent assumption that students know nothing, thus entrusting teachers as the absolute authority of knowledge in charge of filling these “empty containers” through the narration of “alien” content (Freire, 2000, p.71-72). Students are…