In what ways did reading this website enrich, complicate and or confuse your understanding about Freire’s banking concept.

It didn't help much. It didn't even complicate, it just sort of confused. The site seemed to take a random direction. The site was "Why Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' is just as relevant as ever", and it's mostly about the Arab Revolution. That's right, it starts with Pedagogy of the Oppressed and goes to the Arab Revolution. The connection it makes between them is that Freire said "education is freedom". At first I we were confused unsure of what to make of it, sure that the transition was abrupt and out of place. We were convinced to look again, which lead to momentary clarity, only to be replaced by confusion again.

Freire explains: “Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society…Every entity develops (or is transformed within itself, through the interplay of its contradictions. External conditioners, while necessary, are effective only if they coincide with those potentialities”.

We're thinking the writer of this read a different section that what we did. the title Pedagogy of the Oppressed doesn't explicitly say anything about education in the same way the part we read was, and it's entirely possible that large parts of the book are education related tangents. In that way the site could make sense, but because we don't exactly know what part of the book he's referencing or any of the context about this revolution it doesn't exactly help us understand or expand on what we already know. By the end it's all about oppressors and humanity in ways that don't pertain to what we've read.