viva la revolucion

               I simply love reading literature like Against Education.  I am a revolutionist at heart and if I was not currently a member of the military I would most likely be out in the world championing one cause or another.  What Gatto has to tell us is profoundly convincing.  In fact I wrote a similar idea in one of the comments I left on a blog which was “I think that the few aka the aristocracy use the education system as the starting point for molding society in a way that benefits them the most so that they can remain in control”.  From that statement you can deduce that I agree with Gatto.  I especially agree with the part where he talks about conformity being one of the main goals of the education system as it would be a great benefit to the controllers.  It would also help prevent the rise of freethinkers because those people are looked at as crazy and are generally shunned by the rest of society for being different.  The section that talks about how students are chosen for a role in society based on certain criteria sounds just like the idea that we learned about in a video we watched, the name of which I cannot seem to recall, which to me lends credence to the claim.  This is not a novel idea; it is shared by at least two educational thinkers and probably many more.  I do not really disagree with anything that I read so that’s all folks.