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Taylor Gatto Against School Summary

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Success by Schooling (1) The “Do Something” organization is a global movement group which helps youth around the world and is known for highlighting the importance of a formal education. According to the organization, recordings show that in developing, low-income countries, every additional year of education can increase a person’s future income by an average of 10%. There are places all around the world which have different views on the value of education compared to the importance of life experiences. Today, some regions may argue education is more important that life experiences, and vice versa because of the region’s cultural values, location, and economical standpoint. Society may side with the mission of the “Do Something” organization, …show more content…

In the article, “Against School” by Taylor Gatto, the author is a school teacher living in America and he claims that school is not the best way to learn. Gatto claims that the most effective way to be educated is for people (children especially), to go out and explore the world. He believes in order to connect with other people arrow the world, you have to interact with them rather than reading about them in books since books can lead to false connotations. Some may argue that “Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that they’ll never be bored” (Gatto, 5). The author is implying that children who learn by getting a formal education do not live their fullest life and people who learn by experiences truly learn because they explore the world. Many people believe such, but it is not necessarily true because education allows people of the world to connect in one way, through science. If people were to learn only by life experience, then every one would be more divided than we are right now because everyone would be believing different things since they would be learning would be based off their location, culture, and beliefs. If people were to be more divided then there would be more tension between the groups since they could disagree on which way to practice life experiences, which could cause problems. Formal education is based off science, meaning that location, culture, and religion has nothing to do with formal education. This means that if everyone practiced formal education then there would be less problems since everyone would agree on one way to practice, and by science. All in all, formal education is the key to making the world more unified and life experiences would make the world more divided. In addition, education is not excluded to

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