John Gatto Against School
Brainwash Factory
John Taylor Gatto in his essay “Against School” begins explaining of how boring school is to students. He also explains the damage that the system makes to the teacher and the student by not making the material interesting in class. Furthermore, he explains how the students used to look at him as an incompetent teacher who lacks of knowledge. In addition, he shows the dark side of a school system that intends to brainwash and destroy the ideas from kids. He addresses the main goal of the educational system to convert juveniles into the next docile and manageable generation. Also, he proposes how an educational system should be structured. In addition, he demonstrates how a person can become successful without going to a school …show more content…
Young adults depend from a well-educational system in order to become community leaders of and not slaves from a corrupt educational system. Therefore, school should help and develop young adults’ ideas about reality of life by giving to them more knowledge about the world that is around them. As Gatto relates, “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness- curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight” (34). People can create different types of leadership that can govern and accomplish the necessities of a population. In addition, schools should have three goals in order to educate juveniles. First, make good people. Second, make good citizens. Third, make each person his or her personal best. (Gatto 36). These goals are important to create better generations because schools are becoming factories that usually decide who is going to be the next leadership and who is going to be another employee and consumer. Therefore, the educational system should be arranged in a way that helps to achieve the individuals’ goals for his or her …show more content…
educational system should not control and influence the minds of its students and should be created to help its students to succeed in society because a person is able to flourish in life without a controlling educational system. Gatto sees the society as a place where each individual can success without the difficulties that the current educational system applies to students. However, an educational system should address the goals and dreams that each student wants to fulfill in life. Schools are the backbone of society that prevents an individual failure and to the development of a society. As Gatto explains, schools should not be places where kids are forced to understand topics that neither the students believe that their teacher knows. Instead, Places of boredom should be places of receiving knowledge in a joyful
John Taylor Gatto in his essay “Against School” begins explaining of how boring school is to students. He also explains the damage that the system makes to the teacher and the student by not making the material interesting in class. Furthermore, he explains how the students used to look at him as an incompetent teacher who lacks of knowledge. In addition, he shows the dark side of a school system that intends to brainwash and destroy the ideas from kids. He addresses the main goal of the educational system to convert juveniles into the next docile and manageable generation. Also, he proposes how an educational system should be structured. In addition, he demonstrates how a person can become successful without going to a school …show more content…
Young adults depend from a well-educational system in order to become community leaders of and not slaves from a corrupt educational system. Therefore, school should help and develop young adults’ ideas about reality of life by giving to them more knowledge about the world that is around them. As Gatto relates, “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness- curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight” (34). People can create different types of leadership that can govern and accomplish the necessities of a population. In addition, schools should have three goals in order to educate juveniles. First, make good people. Second, make good citizens. Third, make each person his or her personal best. (Gatto 36). These goals are important to create better generations because schools are becoming factories that usually decide who is going to be the next leadership and who is going to be another employee and consumer. Therefore, the educational system should be arranged in a way that helps to achieve the individuals’ goals for his or her …show more content…
educational system should not control and influence the minds of its students and should be created to help its students to succeed in society because a person is able to flourish in life without a controlling educational system. Gatto sees the society as a place where each individual can success without the difficulties that the current educational system applies to students. However, an educational system should address the goals and dreams that each student wants to fulfill in life. Schools are the backbone of society that prevents an individual failure and to the development of a society. As Gatto explains, schools should not be places where kids are forced to understand topics that neither the students believe that their teacher knows. Instead, Places of boredom should be places of receiving knowledge in a joyful