Classic Essay: Against School
By John Taylor Gatto, originally published in Harpers, September 2003. How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught …
By John Taylor Gatto, originally published in Harpers, September 2003. How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught …
Far from being environments conducive to learning, schools across the world coerce students to conform to the whims of politicians and bureaucrats. Billed as bastions of free expression, intellectual honesty and rigor, administrators have turned schools into prisons for the mind, where one-size- fits-all policies are forced upon youth and where independent thoughts are discarded. It’s a world in which the government will tell a student what they can and can’t think, wear, say, or do. It’s a world that crushes the individual for the benefit of those in power — a practice we’ve dubbed “Teensploitation.”
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