Schooling Case

According to the Universal Education by John Taylor Gatto, the knowledge a student regains in school does not necessarily help them with in the real world. He is also saying that the school system taught the students that 'success' is synonymous to 'schooling' and the higher education an individual receives, the higher chance for them to receive a good-paying job. He also argues that well-known people from the earlier years lacked schooling, but they were still doing alright and had a fine education.

One of the most important line is when Gatto describes how schooling "doesn't contribute to solving problems encountered in real life and that it doesn't answer real questions experiences raise in the young mind". This statement is completely agreeable because most of the things we have learned in school are irrelevant to everyday situations outside of school. Perhaps there are certain subjects that benefit everyone like English, and basic math. But good do those subjects do if the students are not into the them and feeling bored out of their mind. Like Gatto has mentioned, "the work in classroom isn't significant work", which suggests that could possibly be the reason why students are not engage into their tasks of doing work they are expected to do because they find the work to be unrelatable and irrelevant to them. This is especially true for certain high school students because it can discourage to resist school since teenagers nowadays do not like being told what to do.

Another argument Gatto made that I found very convincing was the examples of the well-known people. I personally think that schooling is not synonymous to education because the fact of a matter is that if an individual is smart enough to educate themselves and know exactly where they are going in life and what they want and how to get there, then schooling is not needed for them. It is a little frustrating that the system suggests the equalization of schooling and success because that is not initially true because someone can graduate from high school and attend a 4 year university and then graduate as well, but wouldn't remember a thing they've learned. They cannot recall a single thing they were being taught during those school years. Then what's the point of schooling? Instead, they would spend the rest of their 10 years or even more paying off their student loans, while feeling disappointed because they did not really learn anything that was supposed to help them succeed because after all, schooling is success. So really, it doesn't matter whether you understand what they taught you, as long you receive a lot of education, that will guaranteed your success. Perhaps some of those brilliant people whom lacked schooling felt the same way and they found a way to education themselves that would aid them in the real world, without the schooling system.

All in all, Taylor Gatto's