Persuasive Essay On Public Education

Why do you go to school? Is it to learn? Become famous? Make a lot of money? What if I told you that school may not have much to do with the above in a sense? Public schooling does not fully and properly fulfill the educational needs of a person and education today is better served outside the public school classroom. Standardized testing and teaching isn 't helping a student reach his or her full creative and innovative potential. Education is more than just memorizing facts and regurgitating information. The Industrial Revolution was an important time in history for America. It created the world as we know today including education. It created the idea of a person going to work for a company to make money. At the turn of the century this became the norm for society. In the 1950’s America saw the rise of the

John Taylor Gatto, a retired school teacher claims that this is true “Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers ' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there. When asked why they feel bored, the teachers tend to blame the kids, as you might expect. Who wouldn 't get bored teaching students who are rude and interested only in grades.” Gatto makes an important point about kids who are only interested in grades. We can’t really blame the students because we place such an emphasis on the connection between success and test scores. This perpetuates Gatto’s claim in which students lack creativity and the ability to take risks “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight - simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and