Summary Of Against School By John Gatto

The biggest addiction that is forced upon the youth is school. In the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, states the unimportance of schools and that school should be avoided. As Gatto talks about his personal experience and the concept of schooling is an absolute boredom persuades me to agree on this fact. The idea that students have to attend school without having interest to the students makes it really boring. Students learning in schools must be interested in the subjects. In my High School students, along with the teachers were bored. A human mind can only listen someone is thirty minutes and that is scientifically proven. In my life, I have encountered with many successful people that actually did go to school. My parents
encouraged me to attend school because they were made to think that school is the place to find success. Although there are people who do not attend school and are successful. The people that are successful without going to school are said to be geniuses said my grandmother. I agree with this article because the author values time. During the time when people attend schools and feel bored, perhaps can do something else with their time. Time is an uncountable value; we do not know how much of it we really have. Therefore, when doing something that brings joy or interest the time would be faster supposed to doing something boring the time will seem as unchanged or slow. However, there is a flip side to not attending schools, which is not making friends. The benefit attending school, is that it makes the students to network as well to compete. Unfortunately, the school is definitely a place to test students’ knowledge although it is not a proper way to test people. Let’s say Ms. Zimbler is businesswomen, but she decides to educate students on the ways business works, and how to become a businessperson. Her students are all passionate about business and their dream is to create a successful business. Moreover, the students do not know that the business class they took will only teach them the basics about a business. The challenge is on the students to become independent thinkers. Ms. Zimbler is not going to give out all her business loop holes it is for the students to create their own ideas using their logic. Therefore, students think that their time is wasted because humans always think of shortcuts in life. If the schools are no longer in function people will still be in search of shortcuts.