HW - 50 - Your response to a set of readings and final interviews on schooling

John Taylor Gatto was a teacher for over 30 years and can only blame school for lack of student interest. His article on "How public schools cripple our kids, and why." He found himself as well as all the students board in the classroom. he later references his father saying to him that if "I was bored it was my fault and no one else's." In his teacher of the year acceptance speech he talks about how it is a rough time for education. He continues to talk about school being to blame for the bad grades and lack of attraction.

I personally agree with Gatto because i am a student and i know how it feels to be in a boring class. Many students would agree too, when we know what is going on in class that day you get the feeling that it is not important to be in the class. The days that we know that something interesting is occurring in class that day you will notice a slightly higher attendance.

Paulo Freire's idea of teaching is vary plan and simple. Student comes to school a few teachers fill their minds with information that the students sit and absorb. It is a to b, the students have no choice in what they can learn. his article goes on about contradictions in education, that if students had an influence on their own education they would actually need a teacher to give them options then again how would the students know what to teach themselves.

Freire's theories have been my favorite. all of his ideas seem to connect to the the average school life. The main idea is summed up that the young minds are empty and the teachers have the obligation to fill NOT DONE

Lisa Delpit teaches young students and her idea is that she can feed the children complex work and they will feel that it is natural. She realizes that this is not the most interesting way to teach but it is possable