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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his experience as a teacher‚ but he also presents historical evidence that suggests that the public school system is an outdated structure‚ originally meant to dumb down students as well as program them to be obedient pawns in society.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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    Brainwash Factory John Taylor Gatto in his essayAgainst School” begins explaining of how boring school is to students. He also explains the damage that the system makes to the teacher and the student by not making the material interesting in class. Furthermore‚ he explains how the students used to look at him as an incompetent teacher who lacks of knowledge. In addition‚ he shows the dark side of a school system that intends to brainwash and destroy the ideas from kids. He addresses the main goal

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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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    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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    Summary 3: “Against School” In the essayAgainst School” the author John Taylor‚ Gatto claims boredom has made a big impact in schooling systems all around the United States not only in Manhattan‚ New York. Gatto believes that boredom affects the capability of ones education and also states that boredom is a common condition not only in students but also in schoolteachers. Gatto is against schools all together‚ saying that our school system is to blame‚ a school system not designed by the United

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    John Gatto believes that mandatory schooling does wrong by prolonging childhood‚ and Professor X claims that students are unprepared for college‚ and questions whether some should be admitted. Gatto uses historical references to support his claim that schools stifle independence. Professor X doesn’t think everyone is qualified for a college level curriculum. John Gatto is the last one would expect to be a retired school teacher‚ as he preaches the flawed ways of the public school system to anyone

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    ESSAY #1: SUMMARY / CRITICAL RESPONSE ESSAY OBJECTIVES:  This essay assignment will help you do the following:  Improve your ability to read critically and analytically  Improve your ability to respond objectively to a controversial text and evaluate a writer’s rhetorical strategies  Improve your understanding of how to compose an effective thesis statement‚ and develop detailed‚ persuasive and coherent support  Improve your ability to use MLA documentation style OVERVIEW: Summarizing

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    En 101 Essay 2 When it comes to the traditional education‚ John Taylor Gatto’s “Against School” questions whether we really need the nine month‚ drawn out‚ traditional curriculum. Gatto goes on to name several successful people through history that were not products of a contemporary school system. When I think of Gatto’s theory of forced schooling‚ a friend of mine named John Smith who goes by the alias of Viper comes to mind. Viper is in his late 20’s‚ lives in South Philadelphia

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