Topic > Analysis of the book Against School by John Taylor Grotto
According to Gatto in his essay “Against School”, he argues that the true purpose of the education system is not to educate, not to promote self-awareness and not to produce critical thinkers, but rather to put in place to produce standardized deindividuated citizens who become good employees in the socioeconomic system (117). What he means by this is that schools do not want educated students, but rather people submissive and validated by the school structure. The idea of being a scholar does not mean that he is educated, but simply someone who has conformed to education
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