Basically, Freire is saying that the banking concept numbs the student's ability to be actively involved in their own education and is simply there to collect knowledge that the teacher considers useful. Students accept that they must be taught regardless of what they believe gives the teacher a reason to be there. The information banking concept is a detrimental way of teaching students and by using this method the education system is rapidly deteriorating. While instructors justify their own need to be there, little attention is paid to the students. Students sit idly and collect information that is temporarily stored until they need it. Once students use the information, it is replaced but never retained for long. I have encountered this form of education many times. However, I don't remember ever retaining much information or knowledge when it was used in class. Most of the time when I experienced this awkward concept, I was in a math class. Throughout high school, teachers would relay information, saying we needed to memorize an exact formula or equation because we would need to use it in our daily lives. As enthusiastic students, we tried to memorize these long formulas to the best of our ability, but we never had a situation in our daily lives in which we would need to use this information. We were not once taught how to apply this to situations in our outer lives, but simply that we needed to know it for these people.