John Gatto and Alfie Kohn

All of the readings all tied together and all of them gave different arguments and also different point of views which I liked. Well it almost seems as if Gatto and Kohn are both saying that students do not need to go to school in order to learn. I think that this can be true because as John Gatto illustrated in his writings, he said that geniuses like Edison and Franklin were uneducated and they had learned on their own. I just think that if students did not have school then many of them would not care to educate themselves but there would be some that would try to learn as best as they could. I know that in the writings that they talk about school being like a prison and students are locked in there for five days a week and nine months a year for twelve years. I think that this is somewhat true because students hate going to school and will do anything to get out of going which is very similar to going to prison, in which no one wants to go there. Also, boredom is talked about and I believe that boredom is one of most common things in a classroom. Students will not pay attention to what the teacher is saying and, therefore the students education is affected. There is no real way to break out of this mold other then to make school more fun which is very hard to do unless there is a way, we just need to find out how.