Standardized Mind Control

After reading The Banking Concept of Education by Paolo Freire it became very clear to me that he would not approve of the vast increases in standardized testing. Throughout the text he expresses his extreme distaste for the banking concept, a fairly standard method of teaching driven by a very narrative approach. In The Banking method a narrating subject or the teacher takes a set of listening objects aka the students and proceeds to "fill" these objects with his or her narrating. The relationship between student and teacher thus becomes one in which the teacher is the all knowing authority and the students simply receptacles made to memorize and store what the teacher deems important. The more completely the teacher can "fill" his receptacles the better teacher he is thought to be and the more passively and meekly the recepticals allow themselves to be "filled" the better students they are seen as. This leads to a form of knowledge with no true substance simply people accurately regurgitating what they have been told without considering what the words they use truly mean. Standardized testing would fall right into this category because it simply asks the students to regurgitate what they have been told onto a test that will determine just how well they allowed themselves to be "filled". Students are seen as manageable and adaptable objects that are rewarded for accepting this role as it is imposed upon them. They will then be more likely to accept the world as it is presented to them and will never question or challenge an authoritative oppressor. This form of education serves well the oppressive minorities in charge as it leaves a docile majority who feel well educated and informed while having been secretly and threoly taught to never think for themselves.  These people simply adapt to the fractured world they are giving rather then look at it, think about it, and fix it. The best way to control a people is to make them think they are too smart to be tricked and then trick them into thinking they are in control. an increase in standardized testing just shows (At least how I think Freire would view it) they are trying even harder to commend students for not thinking for themselves and punishing the ones who are resistant to becoming receptacles filled with hallow mechanical knowledge.