against school
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In the essay Against School, John Taylor Gatto makes a point of saying that the public education system is in place not to teach students, but to conform them. Gatto argues that schools teach on the lowest level possible to maintain a sort of safe ignorance if you will. He goes on to explain that schools are set up "to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." I myself couldn't agree more.
Throughout my experience with the public school system, I have come to realize that you must educate yourself, or be void of intelligence. It's funny because I haven't learned a single useful thing in school since kindergarten. I have only been spoon-fed useless, redundant facts that have nothing at all to do with life or society. I believe that it is in this way our government hopes to gain control of our every thought, decision, action. By filling our heads with mindless nonsense, we are unable to think freely. We are forced day after day to repeat this endless cycle of idiocy, until we are sucked dry of all imagination, all originality...