Against School

I agree and disagree with a lot of what John Gatto wrote in his essay, “Against school”. Towards the beginning of his essay I don’t agree that all teachers can be boring. It really just depends. Also a lot of their attitudes are so down either. You see about 50/50. Then I do agree with what he thinks a teacher should be like. He had great ideas there but then again didn’t think they were all that possible. “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight - simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then.”That’s what he states on how teachers should be.

Later on in the article he then goes in writing real deep into and about history. Which mainly all that I did NOT agree with. He starts using, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and Franklin for a references about how they didn’t get a very long education with school and how they were very successful.  He compares that to how we most likely don’t need to be in school K-12. But most people way back in history did not attend school. Education back then wasn’t a very common thing. People just wanted to work for a living. I think now days the education has made several people successful and I believe we need it. I have seen someone who dropped out in the 8^th grade and no offense but they appear to be pretty stupid in many different ways. It kind of shows that they didn’t finish schooling. They don’t really mature after they drop out of school, nore really go anywhere in life. I know their may be come exceptions but I am telling what I have seen.

Johns Gattos essay had me up and down a lot. And I think he rambled way to much about history education.