High school is an ever-changing process. As I think back to my last three years of High School things like clothes‚ language‚ and even hairstyles have transformed. If in three years so much can change imagine‚ how much things have changed since our parents were in school. From "bell-bottoms" to "baggy jeans"‚ from "groovy" to "slammin"‚ and from the infamous "pompadour" to the now popular "buzz cut". If these things are so different‚ I wonder how much other things have changed? One of the biggest
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forced upon the youth is school. In the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto‚ states the unimportance of schools and that school should be avoided. As Gatto talks about his personal experience and the concept of schooling is an absolute boredom persuades me to agree on this fact. The idea that students have to attend school without having interest to the students makes it really boring. Students learning in schools must be interested in the subjects. In my High School students‚ along with the
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My high school English Class experience I was born in Beijing where it is difficult for me to get in touch with English. At that time‚ It is impossible for me to meet foreign people on Beijing. I didn’t know English until I was ten years old‚ but I was not interested in it. Therefore‚ my grades on English were not good all this time. However‚ after graduating from junior high school‚ I decided to study abroad on America so that I must be absorbed in studying English. Hence‚ I started to expect the
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Gatto and Holt In the essays “Against School” by John Gatto‚ and “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” by John Holt‚ both authors discuss their views on education and schooling. In both essays the authors analyze education and state their opinions about what is wrong with our schooling system. The authors explain the issues surrounding teachers‚ teaching styles‚ and curriculum in our schools. In John Gatto’s essay “Against School‚” he explains how he does not believe that forced schooling
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“Against School” John Taylor Gatto believes that during his long career in public schools he didn’t realise that schools are playing any major role in modification of “raw” children except making them childish adults. And the key problem behind the outcome is boredom‚ it occurs because scholars feel confined in 12 years of “imprisonment”. Gatto thinks that schools can increase the chances of success for their students if they let them make own decisions and take risks when necessary. Gatto raises
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ENG4U1-01 Ms. Brandon Tuesday October 6‚ 2010 Against School: A Corrupted System The educational systems purpose is to prepare people with the necessary skills and knowledge so that they can excel and function properly in today’s society. John T. Gatto challenges that idea and begs the question is 12 compulsory years of standard schooling consisting of six classes a day‚ five days a week‚ nine months a year needed? Gatto refers to George Washington‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson
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My target audience is my fellow classmates and students of all ages. I would like to reach anyone who feels they are “average” and also people who want to be more than average. My audience is of both genders and a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The audience already knows that Mike Rose was a misplaced student who was sent on a dead end track for his education. He was then redefined by being placed in college prep courses and blossomed into a very successful writer. I believe anyone who read
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The time when I was a high school student is the most exciting and important period in my life because I get a lot of experiences of basic knowledge‚ requirement for university enrollment and human life. The high school program was created for students with an interest in Science and Social studies. I was very good at Mathematics and Social science because I’m interested in Business and Management. That’s why I prepared to become a good manager and businessman. In my opinion‚ business consists of
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In the chapter “What You Say About His Company Is What You Say About Society‚” Chuck Klosterman defines what he believes makes a villain. His asserted definition‚ “the villain is the person who knows the most and cares the least” (Klosterman 3)‚ rests on the idea that calculation or the “dispassionate application of intelligence” confers one the “villains cowl” (Klosterman 6). Klosterman explains his reasoning to us‚ exploring along the way the most evil action available (tying a woman to the railroad
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In Lives on the Boundaries‚ Mike Rose claims that developmental English classes that are meant for remedial students are not actually helping them to become literate. The curriculum is actually hindering students from becoming literate. Rose states that those kinds of remedial classes teach the students that writing is about structure and being grammatically correct instead of being a way to express meaningful ideas. Because of these “corrective teachings”‚ the students see writing as tedious. Rose’s
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