Galluzzo 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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both works‚ ‘Against School’ and ‘Against Love’ I thought over the two and the connections that could be made between them. In ‘Against School‚’ Gatto proclaims his opinion of the education system through years of hands-on experience. He goes on to address how schools do not properly education children‚ but instead leave them bored with themselves. Gatto allows the reader to understand from his point of view from the use of past experiences that he foretells. However‚ in Kipnis’s ‘Against Love‚’ we
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En 101 Essay 2 When it comes to the traditional education‚ John Taylor Gatto’s “Against School” questions whether we really need the nine month‚ drawn out‚ traditional curriculum. Gatto goes on to name several successful people through history that were not products of a contemporary school system. When I think of Gatto’s theory of forced schooling‚ a friend of mine named John Smith who goes by the alias of Viper comes to mind. Viper is in his late 20’s‚ lives in South Philadelphia
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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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“Against School” Essay #1 (summary) In “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto‚ he bonds boredom‚ the common condition of having low energy‚ to schools in the U.S. schooling system. Gatto was a teacher in Manhattan where he taught for thirty years. He retired from teaching in 1991. During his journey as a teacher he was named New York Teacher of the Year for three consecutive years (1989-1991)‚ and honored as New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. In this short story‚ “Against School”‚ Gatto
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Growing up I never really liked school‚ I did okay in all the subjects‚ but it wasn’t my favorite part of the day. All throughout my k-12 education I always questioned why I had to go to school all year except summer‚ and especially why it had to be so early in the mornings. In the book “Rereading America” there is a passage titled “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto. In the passage Gatto asks “ Do we really need school? I don’t mean the education‚ just forced schooling: six classes a day‚ five
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does not belive in our school system. He believes that the staying in the American schooling system for so long has supplied him with every reason to refer to it as a childish program. According to him‚ people may see the key problem of schooling as boredom. To clarify his point‚ Gatto asserts having education is not equal to taking schooling which is instead considered as “a daily routine in a factory of childishness in order to make sure children do not really grow up.” Gatto supports his views by
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October 2014 Influences of public school In the story “Against school: How public education cripples our kids‚ and why” the author‚ John Taylor Gatto‚ establishes the idea of how public education can lead to a negative impact on students. School train kids‚ “[to become] employees and consumers…” (Gatto 231) instead of teaching kids how to deal with certain situations that my come across in life. The story was directed to parents with kids in elementary school. Gatto believes that there are many different
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“Against School” is an argumentative essay that tells about how the public education system incapacitates the children of today. It was written by John Taylor Gatto. In this reading‚ Gatto claims that the public education system causes children to become bored with themselves‚ to conform to the way of the school and its teachers‚ and it causes them to lack the ability to deal with issues that go on in the real world‚ outside of school. Gatto’s explanation for this is that it is partially the teachers’
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Against School The article Against Schools is a very intriguing article or could case great debate and concern about public schooling systems in America today. Born in Monongahela‚ Pa‚ John Taylor Gatto is a retired America school teacher with nearly 30 years of experience in the school system. Gatto is a recipient of many awards such as: The New York City Teacher of the Year award in 1989‚1990‚ and 1991 and The New York State Teacher of the Year award in 1991. He is broadminded perilous of compulsory
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