Lack Of Empowerment Analysis

School and Its Lack of Empowerment The definition of learning, the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught, has not changed the execution has drastically changed from the time parents finished school. The demand for the new workforce to have a higher education is growing, rather than being able to find a decent job after high school graduation students are now expected to go to college and perhaps graduate school for particular careers. However public school does a poor job at empowering a young adult because public schools produce mediocre adults, constricts student free thoughts and force students to conform to society norms at young age. While children will be children, it has become a normal saying, teachers should hold their children to higher standards in life. In Against School Gatto argues, “ Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants ” ( Gatto 615). This forces students to see assignments as only grades, rather than practice for the test at the end of the chapter. As a result students develop a habit to perform the bare minimum on assignments and do not take the time to complete and understand an assignment. A possible solution to the lack of challenge in the public school system, Gatto says, “ Urge them to …show more content…
Conformity and fear play hand in hand with each other, indirectly causing students to act without thinking. In A Memoir of A Bilingual Childhood Rodriguez says, “ That voice, like so many of the Spanish Voices I’d hear in public, recalled the golden age of my childhood “ ( Rodriguez 236 ). In the story Rodriguez loses touch with his culture, as a result, he feels nostalgic when he heard Spanish. If students only conformed to their studies other opportunities are missed, for example, learning about what other skills