123 School Work

Classically Conditioned Students An Analysis to John Taylor Gatto s Argument

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  In "Against School," former New York teacher of the year John Taylor Gatto argues the validity of the public school system in the United States, calling schools "factories of childness" (34). To Gatto, schools are nothing more than a mass-producing warehouse to produce products for the corporate world. Along with accusing the public school system of producing children, Gatto also contends that schools divide the students.
       When Gatto claimed schools are "laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate demands", this accusation is very similar to the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. This ludicrous idea of mass-producing products (students) in factories (schools) that come out the same is incorporated in both writings. Gatto contends schools have six major functions in which students are broken down into. "1) The adjustive or adaptive function. 2) The integrating function. 3) The diagnostic and directive function. 4) The differentiating function...