What does Freire mean when he says, “Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information?
The definition for cognition is the mental process of knowing.  Keeping this in mind, Freire is trying to say that setting education free consists in acts of cognition, not by the passing on of information from teacher to student.  What he is trying to state is that the students need to think for them so that they can decide what to believe, not teachers giving, or passing on information to them.  In the classroom the teacher is placed on a higher level then the student, which makes the students inferior to the teacher.  So when a teacher presents information to the class the student doesn’t have the experience to process the information and actually think about it.  They are just taking in the information as given and taking it as the truth, and that is exactly what Freire means when he says The “Banking” Concept of Education is.  In his essay he says that “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.  Instead of communication, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize and repeat.”  He thinks that we need to get past this and make the students think for them and find out what is true and relevant in their lives as the truth, and not taking it from a teacher.