Summary of Education Cripples Our Kids In How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why retired teacher, John Taylor Gatto describes it’s the boredom that effects are students and concludes there are many reasons why we are all to blame for this cause. Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and often blame the kids for being rude and not interested in anything but their grades that makes them feel trapped in a structure so rigid by school personnel its not imposed with the children. After Gatto had a talk with his grandfather he realized the obligation to amuse and instruct yourself was completely on your own ability, and for people that did not understand this are childish and not to be trusted. Gatto wanted to challenge the
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Gatto believed we could fix this by encouraging the best qualities of youthfulness by simple being more flexible with time, text, and test. Introduce them to truly competent adults, and give each student the autonomy he or she needs to in order to take a risk every now and then. After realizing this does not occur in schools around the world he proposed the thought, “Do we really need schools? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, 5 days a week, 9 months a year, for 12 years” (2, Gatto). Don’t give the rational of reading, writing, and arithmetic because over two million homeschoolers have put that justicication to rest. Even our presidents didn’t stick with such a school system and turn out all right. When I was a child I used to believe my boredom was caused by other people, boredom approached when one wasn’t entertaining me. However, though we still rarely admit it, we often take granted the things a school provides for us, like recess, lunch, breaks etc. We never notice we are providing our own entertainment and no one else is. Now when it comes to the topic of system schooling, most of us would readily agree it should be required. Where this agreement usually ends however is on the
Gatto believed we could fix this by encouraging the best qualities of youthfulness by simple being more flexible with time, text, and test. Introduce them to truly competent adults, and give each student the autonomy he or she needs to in order to take a risk every now and then. After realizing this does not occur in schools around the world he proposed the thought, “Do we really need schools? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, 5 days a week, 9 months a year, for 12 years” (2, Gatto). Don’t give the rational of reading, writing, and arithmetic because over two million homeschoolers have put that justicication to rest. Even our presidents didn’t stick with such a school system and turn out all right. When I was a child I used to believe my boredom was caused by other people, boredom approached when one wasn’t entertaining me. However, though we still rarely admit it, we often take granted the things a school provides for us, like recess, lunch, breaks etc. We never notice we are providing our own entertainment and no one else is. Now when it comes to the topic of system schooling, most of us would readily agree it should be required. Where this agreement usually ends however is on the