School Is Bad For Schools By Lynda Barry Analysis

Education in the United States is at the center of many if not all children’s lives growing up. However the physical act of going to school is very different on a person to person level. That is why I believe that it’s important to look at and compare the writing of Lynda Barry titled The Sanctuary of School, and the writing of John Holt titled School Is Bad For Children. In her article Barry describes to her audience a very personal story of growing up in a family that didn’t really notice her and how going to School truly made her feel that she fit in somewhere. And with his article Holt chose to talk about how he feels that schools in general are causing more harm than good to how kids learn and think in an educational environment. Holt
In his article Holt mentions ideas that he believes could change the current education system. He believe that his ideas would make school better and more engaging to students. But the one idea that he talked about that directly correlated with an idea Barry had was on the idea that, we need to make school a place where students and teachers alike want to be and enjoy being there. In his article Holt mentions “Schools wouldn’t stay the way they are, they’d get better, because we would have to start making them what they ought to be right now-places where children would want to be”. And in saying this what Holt is ultimately doing is he is backing up his whole idea that if people want schools to get better the school system as whole is going to have to change. Now Holt and Barry might now agree on many topics relating to there respective articles but something they do have in common is on the idea that the school system does in fact need to change. In her article Barry says this “ We all know that a good education system saves lives, but the people of this country are still told that cutting the budget for public schools is necessary, that poor salaries for teachers are all we can manage and that art, music and all creative activities must be the first to go when times are lean”. The reason this quote from Barry’s article is so important is because just like Holt mentioned in his article for the education in schools to get better people need to understand that removing or not allowing certain classes to have funding would defeat the purpose of having school anyway. And its because of the quote Barry used that it just goes to show how important it is to change the current education system to meet the needs of every individual