Gatto claims thats school is consistent with boring those involved. He describes his students as saying that the work is pointless, doesn't make sense and or they already knew it. I would agree to a point with what Gatto is claiming. All throughout secondary school I couldn't wrap my mind around why I needed to know some of the subjects these teachers were forcing down my throat. Although they claimed that this is important information needed to be a successful adult, I knew many successful adults that didn't know chemistry or calculus to the degree that our teachers were trying to convince us was mandatory.
Gatto states that "...we must wake up to what our schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands." This may seem extreme but I entirely agree that the need for young people to go to school is shrouded in the idea that its to educate us to play important roles in society but more so to do what Gatto explains, help facilitate "habits and attitudes that corporate society demands".
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