Febuary 2013 Rough Draft In the article “Dumbing us down: Weapons of Mass Destruction” John Taylor Gatto explains how today’s education system needs to be changed to focusing more on children’s interests instead of an institutionalized curriculum. He wants to revolutionize the school system to something similar to his education in a small town called Monongahela‚ Pennsylvania. When he went to school he was taught through classical schooling‚ which trained him to develop independent thinking
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In John Gattos “Why Schools Don’t Educate” he addresses the issues of modern education. In his speech for “Teacher of the year” he explains that education is part of a social crisis. Which create students into robots. Due to the amount of control that the education system has. He continues by explaining the lack of time given to learn is irrational. Gattos example was the bell in school. Once you begin to comprehend a material the bell rings. And you must continue to the next. He offers solutions
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Against School Response In “Against School‚” John Gato explains that there’s something wrong with the education system along with the process of schooling. In my response‚ I understand where he’s coming from. I’ve been contemplating myself as to how my twelve years of education had been. I personally agree to his arguments against the education system and public education. I believe what Gato is saying that the educational system and schooling has an issue involving the control and predictability
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John Gatto’s “Against School” is a persuasive essay arguing both the ineffectiveness and negative outcomes of today’s public school system. Not only does Gatto provide credibility with his experience as a teacher‚ but he also presents historical evidence that suggests that the public school system is an outdated structure‚ originally meant to dumb down students as well as program them to be obedient pawns in society. Fact and authority alone do not supplement his argument. Gatto also uses emotional
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Rhetoric and Composition 1020 18 September 2012 Ask any student in public high school what they like and dislike about school. Odds are‚ they will say that what they enjoy most about school is the social interactions it allows them to take part in‚ and what they dislike about school is the classes. John Taylor Gatto‚ in “Against School: How Public Education Cripples our Kids‚ and Why‚” discusses the reasons for such boredom in an in depth manner. Most of the time‚ nowadays‚ it is not the amount
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Critical Response Essay The real debate - the pipe-dream or nuclear? Mark Kenny ’The Nation’ Mark Kenny’s article on the coal power versus nuclear power debate was published in the Advertiser on the 31st of October 2009. The Advertiser is South Australia’s only daily tabloid newspaper‚ and is widely distributed around South Australia allowing for a large dispersion of readers from diverse cultural backgrounds and an assortment of age groups. The article has Mark Kenny’s photograph situated
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Writing Workshop: Critical Response Essay Ray Bradbury’s “The Sound of Thunder” and Gloria Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” are both good science fiction stories. These stories are both about scientific technology changing the life of a certain person‚ although there are a few different themes in these stories. In‚ “The Sound of Thunder‚” Eckells has a rude awakening when he realizes that he will be facing harsh consequences due to the fact that he didn’t obey the few rules that were given at the beginning
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Beata Gubernat 16 April y Against School John Taylor Gatto The main subject in John Taylor Gatto’s essay is the schooling system and all it’s weaknesses. He argues that‚ the real objective of mandatory schooling is not according received wisdom to make good people and citizens‚ but to reduce individuality‚ put down dissent and originality just in order to make populace manageable. Taylor Gatto provides number of arguments in favour of his thesis. Essay is coherently and consistently written
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Larza v. Board of Education “Against School” is an essay that argues the true effectiveness of the current public school system‚ and how it affects children later in the real world. John Gatto‚ a teacher of 30 years in the Manhattan school system and winner of many prestigious teaching awards‚ discusses how high school was just a breeding ground for boredom. The boredom not only affects the children‚ but also the teachers. Gatto believes that the children in the school should be able to manage themselves
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Against School The article Against Schools is a very intriguing article or could case great debate and concern about public schooling systems in America today. Born in Monongahela‚ Pa‚ John Taylor Gatto is a retired America school teacher with nearly 30 years of experience in the school system. Gatto is a recipient of many awards such as: The New York City Teacher of the Year award in 1989‚1990‚ and 1991 and The New York State Teacher of the Year award in 1991. He is broadminded perilous of compulsory
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