Gatto’s article was an influential read to myself for many reasons. One reason was that it made me feel like every choice I have made up to now in my life had been made for me. Which wasn’t a very comforting feeling at all, but the more I had thought about it the more I could luckily disagree with the article.
Although I can’t know for sure, I feel safe to assume Gatto’s experience in public education had to be completely different from my own simply because I had an enjoyable time. He described public schooling as a mentally crippling process for ones future in the “real world.” I can definitely agree with that in some areas but who’s to say that teaching something else would make a difference of what the students would absorb. I had a good time in schooling because I let myself have fun and take in what I wanted to learn. People are going to be successful and unsuccessful regardless of their schooling because they will always have a choice to take in whatever they want out of what they’re being taught.
-Corbin B.
"People are going to be successful and unsuccessful regardless of their schooling because they will always have a choice to take in whatever they want"
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean here? In some ways I could agree, in others, I would have issues. Do we always have a choice? In my experience, whether legitimately or irrevocably or not, schooling does have consequences.
Alan