Why Schools Don T Educate By John Taylor Gatto

Education Achievement Our experience defines our capacity on how we overcome obstacles that life throws at us and because our experience we can apply them to education. We live in a complex world where education is most, no matter what social class you and I might belong too. We have this concept that without education we aren’t able to survive in this world, which is true because in order to survive in this world we need knowledge and we get that knowledge by going to school. You see, we are born with a clean slate, meaning that as babies we have a blank mind that develops over time. Some of our developments take place in a school. Now because this is such a complex world there are some people that say that schools are not doing a good job in educating their students. Take John Taylor Gatto as an example, he wrote a novel called “From why Schools Don’t Educate “where he states that schools are not educating their students because the students are focusing all their time on watching television which means that it is destroying the American family. As students, we are responsible for our education, we cannot blame non – living thing for the action that we take. Due to the hard work of teachers, more and more students are being educated. …show more content…
While Gatto was teaching, he came up to the conclusion that his students have no curiosity, he noticed this issue while he was teaching in one of the New York public schools. Gatto said - “They cannot concentrate for very long, even on things they choose to do”. I disagree with Gatto’s point of view because there are children that are curious about many different things in life and once they are curious about something they are determined to get gain more knowledge. That’s how we student can create a landscape of our dreams and desires. But to get the knowledge we must go to