In John Taylor Gatto’s “Against School”  he speaks about how public school is hurting students more than helping. He first starts off by speaking about how teachers are just as bored as students which is part of the problem as to why students are uninterested and don’t see the value of their education. He then goes on the speak about how people like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were all homeschooled and that they seem to all turn out pretty well, as he describes it  “they were not products of the system”. Gatto making this point makes it out to be that the best possible way for students to learn is through homeschooling, he also speaks about how success isn’t just something that comes with schooling. People are fully capable of educating themselves and this can push away that double standard of needing to be in school. Now at this point it seemed to make sense, but after continuing to read the rest of the article It felt like Gatto was going on tangent with his writing and I was getting a bit lost. I appreciate the detail he decided to get into about his extensive research he did for this article, but it was overly saturated with to much background that his main point was becoming lost. His point of view started to regain itself towards the end of the article when he said this “ 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.” I highly agree that school system is like one big experiment and all the students are like lab rats. Gatto came to the ultimate conclusion that people should just manage themselves, which can be a success or can possibly fail. We never know.
