Gatto's Summary

Gatto emphasizes his view on why students and teachers are bored in school. He says they are bored because students are being taught the information they already know, while the teachers are bored and disappointed because the students only want just good grades and not learn anything.Everything that the teachers and students did, he felt it was repetitive. For example, if you are a student, you have to go to lunch at the same time every day and recite the same information over and over again, it can be boring. The teachers had to go over the same ideas and concepts every year. Plus some teachers were not interested in the student well being. For a student to be engage in class, the teacher must show some kind of interest in the class. My own
These functions are adjustive or adaptive function, integrating function, diagnostic or directive function, differentiating function, selective function, and propaedeutic function.The adjustive or adaptive functions includes fixed habits of reaction to authority meaning teachers are trying to teach disobiendant students some interesting things, but they cannot because the students want to be rude.The integrating function makes students alike as much as possible, meaning that they want all of us to read the same or comprehend the same. Every student cannot be alike.The diagnostic or directive function determines the social role of each student. The differentiating function sorts every student by their social role and trained them to succeed. In middle school, we were put into groups of three 801,802, and 803 whereas 803 was the smartest group. My teacher would say that 803 would be more successful than the other groups,because we were in the top level group in our grade. You could not go up ,”so much for making kids their personal best.”(152)The selective punishes the students who do not succeed so that the other students cannot follow in their path. The propaedeutic function trains a small number of students to learn to “watch over and control a population