Comments on: John Taylor Gatto: Schooling is not Education – Part 1

By: Ckordobah

Ckordobah — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

@harrissasha What you just Described is exactly what our Nation lives off of every day of our Lives. Slavery and Child labor to sustain our Life style and our Pure Materialistic Addictions. You are making a complete counter distinction. He is against the Current Educational System and the what it produces. Putting Children through an educational System that is Designed to Dumb them down and to Co Op them into a System that is bent on Exploitation is no Different than Forced Child Labor.

By: harrissasha

harrissasha — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

Gatto references the founders of our educational system but doesn’t seem to know what it was like for children who didn’t attend school or, who’s parents wouldn’t let them attend school? During this time in American history there was a labor crisis. More and more industrialists used child labor to drive down production costs. Wages spiraled downward as adults lost their jobs to children. Working conditions in factories were horrific. School wasn’t even a choice for a great many children.

By: TheVedicStudent

TheVedicStudent — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

Well the Government like to keep people stupid, Stupid people are easy to control the Catholics and Romans did this for many years. It’s all Rascaldom..

By: djlookwood

djlookwood — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

Alice Miller writes “Resistance (to abuse) is not a matter of intelligence; it is a matter of direct access to the true self”

Education is by design an attempt to alienate those who comply from their true selves.

Obedience is thus dishonest. Disobedience is honesty.

By: moomoo4u2moo

moomoo4u2moo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

No. Posting with bad grammar is just more proof that the school system failed with that poster that you are criticizing.

By: cycomerlin14

cycomerlin14 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

Please do. It’s your life.

By: ET253

ET253 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

are you being sarcastic?

By: leereyno

leereyno — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

If you are going to post something criticizing formal education as it exists today, PLEASE take the time to use proper grammar and punctuation.

Posting a single run-on sentence that suffers from a complete lack of punctuation, as well as terrible spelling in some places, only serves to undermine whatever the argument is that you are trying to make.

This is especially true when you are criticizing our educational system.

By: sawaugust

sawaugust — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

i have to go to prision/school in september1st fuck no education is ment to be fun and adventurous but school classrooms take that away the only way to learn education is you have to learn it for yourself school dosent let you do that witch i horrible i youst to think quiting school was a bad thing but now i see its the other way around.

By: Saalyg

Saalyg — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:10 +0000

Precisely. The system makes it easy for people like me to just continue to do nothing when I see group exercises and group thought being the central ideas of a class. We need kids to learn to work as a team, that’s not bad at all. But the individual aspect of education, especially for the exceptionally bright students, should be touched upon in all classes. School should prepare you for living after school, too, rather than simply making sure you have the skills to fit into the workforce