Our entire lives we have been told that we need to attend many years of schooling to be successful. (To have high paying jobs, so we can afford the better things in life, so we can have a higher quality of life.) John Gatto,( a writer and teacher of twenty years,) presents the question, “Do we really need school?’ adding his voice to the decades long debate over education reform. In his article “Against School”, Gatto brings up topics we’ve all heard before, but attacks them using logos, ethos, and quite a bit of history. By referencing famous people like: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin, and Mark Twain, he talks about how these people were never put “through the twelve year ringer” but still turned out alright (Gatto 116). Is this possible, is it true that today’s leaders or great inventors or authors do not have to go through what is an inadequate schooling system. …show more content…
‘To make good people. To make good citizens. To make each person his or her best.”(Gatto 117). Even now, almost a hundred years later, we still follow those goals but with a skewed purpose. Todays twelve year trip through knowledge has (unknowingly) fabricated students from the same cloth. These same students are just statistics, they are just test scores published by greedy states vying for the title of “Good Educators.” Which further proves that America has a flawed school system, not only in the sense that students are slaves to the lofty test score goals but, schools also suppress creativity and the