School John Gatto Analysis

The goal of school, largely argued by Gatto, is to shape students in a way where they think alike and act alike that allows them to be more predictable. The effect of this is that some students find school to be boring and childish. It’s designed in such a simple way that allows us to read simple principles of schooling and how it is done. What this does is almost make our schooling system into one that slightly misses the point of education. There are some historical figures who have completely ignored school, got along on their own, and became some of the most powerful and innovative people we know. Each of these points are as important as the last, and show how our schools are a problem. What truly makes school boring for students? Not …show more content…
Gatto emphasizes that our current schooling system is not the education that students deserve. School is designed in a way that makes it almost like prison, students being stuck in a place that pushes them along for twelve years with some breaks in between. Education is free to be explored at any time of the day and at any point in your life. An idea heavily argued by Gatto is the thought of actually needing school. Anyone can get involved in an education, but not everyone can get involved in school. You can learn from a teacher, but you can really only understand if you do it on your own. There is a line between schooling and education, and there are some great examples of people who have crossed that line to …show more content…
Gatto celebrates the fact that there are a great number of historical figures out there that have made great achievements throughout their lives without an education. These people were able to do unimaginable things without a school-taught education, and is the reason why we don’t need school-taught educations. While there are some people out there that may need the help of a school to really learn, most people would most likely do great things without an school-taught education. To really capture what that person is supposed to be, we should try to keep them away from the nearly toxic thing that is school and allow them to get involved with something they find interesting, while trying to teach them simple lessons along the way. If you want to go even further than that Gatto emphasizes that children should manage themselves. Allow them to discover the world for themselves and make of it what they would want. Really just let them at it and find out what they want and research the complete opposite of what the school would want. If we don’t, well then we may just find our children stuck in the same twelve years of hate to learn, only to have them become what we have today,