Still Separate Still Unequal By John Taylor Gatto

Horace Mann’s idea of education being the great equalizer is a myth. Education only depends on race and your financial status. Education teaches limited skills and everyone gets where they are based on their own caliber. There were no public school systems before the 19th century. That should make people realize how much education has limited us these past centuries. Almost all children love to write funny stories or just express their imaginations with music or a paint brush. That’s why there are creative, talented students thinking they aren’t smart enough because everything they were best at in school wasn’t stigmatized or valued in any way. In the story “ Against Schools’’ by John Taylor Gatto. Gatto stated how students were bored and that boredom was the new modern day experience for a student. The students were very uninterested and felt as though their teacher knew nothing of the subject. Gatto felt that most teachers are bored of being teachers, teaching the same thing each year. He also argued the school systems purpose was to keep children from growing up and teaching them to a certain level and nothing higher. Gatto

But that doesn’t mean a person will automatically be considered an equal or be respected. People tend to judge first and then get to know you. Like in the story “ Still Separate , Still Unequal “ by Jonathan Kozol. Kozol stated how when he had a conversation with a few high school students they told him they wanted to take AP classes but instead they were forced to only take classes needed for graduation. The students were only able to do cosmetology and sewing. That goes to show that the public school system only want students to have certain careers and to limit their choices in life not knowing how it’ll affect their future. Kozol felt as if the inner city districts are limiting minority students instead of encouraging them to