Gatto makes the statement “Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests…and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood, would ever re-integrate into a dangerous whole (36).”\u00a0 I think within all levels of education there are specific divisions put in place to let this disunity exist within the population. In grade school there are programs like GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) that begins in 4th grade. Students that meet the criteria are removed from the classroom for a certain amount of time everyday and given a “higher level” schooling in math and english. This type of system exists in middle and high school educations as well, with Honors and AP tracks that segregate the “smart” students from the average students.<\/p>\n
Moreover the abundance of intensive sports programs segregate students even further by taking student-athletes out of the campus culture in the afternoons and on weekends in both high school and college level. Systems like this that seek to benefit students and their specific “talents and gifts” create a discordant population of youth that are unable to connect with one another because their schooling is completely different. The lack of relation leads to the society that Gatto describes, because the real world doesn’t function on the “useless” talents pursued in the education system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gatto makes the statement “Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests…and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood, would ever re-integrate into a dangerous whole (36).”\u00a0 I think within all levels … Continue reading