From Social Class And Hidden Curriculum Of Work Analysis

According to John Taylor Gatto, author of “Against Schools,” the public education system “cripples” the children of today. In the reading, Gatto claims that the public education system causes children to become bored with themselves, to obey the way of the school and its teachers, and lacks to teach them the ability to deal with issues that go on in the real world, outside of school. Moreover, Jean Anyon, author of “From Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work,” compares and contrasts the different social class school systems. This includes, working class, middle class, affluent professional, and executive elite. As Anyon goes into detail about the interactions in the classroom between the teachers and the students, it appears that the higher the social class, the better the education provided is. …show more content…
In other words, schools are built to teach student to obey authority, to make them as alike as possible and predictable, to determine the students social role and once that has been determined they are only taught enough to help them reach that role, schools establish labels, and only a selected amount of students are taught to manage and control the population. Gatto states, “Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real is to turn them into servants.”(149) Furthermore, what Gatto is trying to convey is that schools are teaching us how to becoming working citizens. The schools teach one to follow directions and ask for