Gatto says that the “definition of public schools …show more content…
Gatto explain that school are “laboratories of experimentation on young minds” (232) that builds the students habits to be integrated into society, but if the students can break away from the status quo they can become geniuses. School are factories that produce simple-minded people to than be integrated into an industry. Many people in the past have not gone through our schooling system and are more successful than the common student. Our students are smart but we suppress their intelligence by placing them into the institution called school. There are students in high school that have advanced farther than the common college school student. College student that are better than adults that are actually working in the industry. Those students have broken away from the laboratories and advanced on their own to become …show more content…
Gatto explains how schools aren't the problem but “forced schooling” (227). Students are forced into a loop of mandatory schooling for 12 years. 12 years of boredom and torture. Sitting in a classroom setting keeping quiet for hours on a day. It torture for young minds. The short breaks in between doesn't help them much. Schools and education is a good idea, but not forced schooling. There is said to be a 75% of increase of homeschooling in the past 8 years. Home schooling is what we should encourage. Or at least a form of it. The school system we have now is based on grades and numbers. I know for an instance that after I finish a test I tend to forget everything in that particular section. Home schooler emphasis on mastery and not grades. Learning something and retaining it is always better than forcing it into your brain and forgetting it