Against School

I agree with John Taylor Gatto when he writes that school is boring. This boredom is the result of an overflow of information that is repetitively and mindlessly drilled into the heads of students across the country. The United States education system needs to be invigorated with what its students want to learn, not what is deemed necessary by education officials. I disagree with the fact that modern schooling “make[s] a sort of surgical incision into the prospective unity of these underclasses”, because school does allow students to collaborate and cooperate, and that environment needs to be sustained as education gets reformed. The students simply need more autonomy in what they engage in when they come into the classroom.