Against School

I could not agree more with John Gatto. His ideas on boredom that his grandfather taught him, that it is our own fault and no one else’s. We all have the ability to instruct ourselves. This relates back a few blogs about how we all need a purpose. Without a purpose, you surely will become bored. Gatto also spoke on the necessity of schooling. Not education, but schooling and as John put it, schooling’s “deadly routine.” That we are forced to sit down and most likely relearn content numerous times over for roughly twelve years of our life, which falls back onto the banking concept that we previously discussed. Teachers need to adapt to each of their classes, meaning teachers cannot be just anyone. They can’t just spew information as we sit, mouths ajar, collecting all the dribble. Schooling has risen to a point where education is on the back burner. Schools are just meant to put out socially acceptable students not well-educated ones. Gatto sums it up in this list, “1) To make good people. 2) To make good citizens. 3) To make each person his or her personal best.” They way schools are setup now are almost custom tailored to suppress great minds. Anyone with an abstract frame of thought is deemed wrong instantly and shuttled away to be reformatted with the appropriate school software.