Against School How Public Education Educates Our Kids,...

In the attempt to persuade his readers in â€Å"Against School: How public education cripples our kids, and why†, John Gatto relied on his passion for education to express his thoughts. Having a bad experience as a teacher in our current school system, he believes that our system isn’t what it should be. He believes that our kids aren’t being educated. With the use of frequent rhetorical questions, personal experiences, and an appeal to ethos using other respectable men’s work, Gatto clarified his points about our schools in the America. Gatto informs us that he himself was a teacher for about 30 years. In those 3 decades, he â€Å"became an expert in boredom.† He believes boredom is everywhere in the classroom. When asking his students, â€Å"Why they†¦show more content†¦We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight - simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then† (Gatto 4). To furthermore explain his reasoning, he rhetorically questioned his own hypothesis of there being a problem in our system. â€Å"What if there is no problem with our schools? What if they are the way they are, so expensively flying in the face of common sense and long experience in how children learn things, not because they are doing something wrong but because they are doing something right? Is it possible that George W. Bush accidentally spoke the truth when he said we would leave no child behind? Could it be that our schools are designed to make sure not one of them ever really grows up† (Gatto 5). â€Å"Do we really need school† is the question he asks the reader. By doing this he made the reader rethink about the compulsory schooling students have to go through to be â€Å"success ful† in life. Gatto questions why we have to go to school, â€Å"six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelveShow MoreRelatedAgainst School By John Taylor Gatto1317 Words   |  6 Pages Some people believe education enslaves us and other people believe education liberates us. The education that students receive is both boring and incorrect; in the Oxford dictionary it defined education, â€Å"a process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university†. I strongly believe education enslaves us. Schools don’t educate, they only teach people to follow orders. 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Gatto states his experience as a public school teacher and why he â€Å"just cant-do it anymore†. He was tired how the schooling was programmed. He argues how school system are affecting students to be more like â€Å"childlike† citizens. Also, Anyon demonstrates her research on how thereRead MoreThe Myth of Gyges and The Allegory of the Cave, Several Paragraphs on Philosophy and Education2708 Words   |  11 PagesEducation 1) The Myth of Gyges and The Allegory of the Cave was made up by Plato. According to Saunders (2006), the myth of Gyges talks about how a man named Gyges who got a hold of a ring that made him invisible. Since no one could see him he was able to do whatever he wanted without getting caught. The message in this myth is that if everyone had a ring to make them invisible we would most likely do unjust things no matter if we were just or unjust before putting on the ring. According to Cohen