Quotations for Essay

• In the essay "Against School: How School Cripples our Kids..." John Gatto states, "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." 
• Gatto refers to Alexander Inlgis' break down of modern schooling's purpose into six functions. One function is highlighted as the inegrating function, or conformity function. "The integrating function. This might as well be called "the conformity function" because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force."
• According to Lewis Black, a comedian with a daily show on Comedy Central, "I’m pretty sure schools shouldn't be the nicest building you'll ever be inside, I went to school in an empty carton of Pall Malls!”
• Black also says, "There are those who feel kids need a challenging curriculum and one on one help instead of a cafe and putting green"
•  Paolo Freire, in his book "Pedagogy of the Opressed", sas that the school expects that, "the teacher chooses the program content and the students (who were not consulted) addapt to it."
• Freire also states, "the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects."
• In the book "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom" author bell hooks says, "Engaged Pedagogy begins with the assumption that we learn best when there is an interactive relationsjop between student and teacher."
• hooks also observes that "As teachers, we can create a climate for optmial learning if we understand the level of emotional awareness and emotional intelligence in the classroom [which will bring forth success]."
• In his article "Resolutions on Education" Mike Rose tells us, "I believe it was Hoover Institute economist Eric A. Hanushek who observed that if we simply got rid of the bottom 10% of teachers (as determined by test scores) and replaced them with teachers at the top 10%, we'd erase the achievment gap..."

Gatto, John Taylor. "Against School." Harper's Magazine. Harper's Magazine. Sept. 2003. Web 3 Dec. 2013.

Black, Lewis. "Black on Black." The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. 6 Oct. 2010. Comedy Central 1995-2013. Web 3 Dec. 2013.

 Freire, Paolo. "The Banking Concept of Education." Pedagogy of the Opressed. New York City: Continuum International Group, 1970. Print.

 hooks, bell. "Engaged Pedagogy." Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. Print.

Rose, Mike. "Resolutions Someone Should Make for 2011." The Washington Post [Washington D.C.] 5 Jan. 2011. Print.