Gatto Paper
Jess
9-4-07
John Taylor Gatto Paper
John Taylor Gatto argues in both of his writings, “The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher” and “Against School” that the education system today may not be the best choice for every adolescent. Class position, a part of the “hidden curriculum”, the second lesson taught by Gatto in the “The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher.” Starting right away in elementary school, we are placed into classes based on our level of intelligence. At the time, we were oblivious to what different class positions meant. When in reality, it was shaping our academic pathway. As we grew older, those class positions, for the most part , stuck. It wasn’t impossible to switch to a higher or lower level, it just wasn’t stressed. If you were in low math you stayed in that position. Gatto argues that the emphasize on numbering children creates for an unhealthy learning atmosphere and he states, “Numbering children is a big and very profitable undertaking,......
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