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This 3 page paper takes the form of a letter to a disillusioned student who asks the question, What’s the point of school? Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Point of School
Inc. by K. Von Huben 9/2010 Please Introduction John Gatto, in a very persuasive essay, argues that the purpose of school
is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to keep them childlike as long as possible. After 12 years
of boredom, they are graduated as immature, non-thinking drones who will be both mindless consumers and uncomplaining workers in a system that is skewed to reward only a very few.
This paper takes the form of a letter to a student who asks "Whats the point of school?" and is based on Gattos argument as being correct. Discussion Dear Katie,
You ask me "whats the point of school?" and beneath that question I sense anger, disillusion and frustration. I know you and many others see no relevance in what youre
taught-that there are no "real world" applications that are based on your ability to recite the Gettysburg Address or understand the implications of the economic strategies of the British East
Indies Company. You argue that you are being taught the same way as every other generation, that certain classes are given to students at specific times or when they reach
the appropriate age, and that year after year you go back and repeat the same information. Social studies in sixth grade is the same class as it is in eighth
grade; science in school doesnt advance nearly as quickly as science in the real world, and you can predict which Shakespeare play you will study in the four years of
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