Why Schools Don't Educate

I was always fully aware of the obvious parameters that kept our children form healthy formal development. Time after time I continuously accused public television as the number one source of “rotting” our children’s brains from the inside out. In John Taylor Gatto’s Why Schools Don’t Educate, he dissects the average child’s day to day and breaks down the time they have for moral development. He concluded that the average child had approximately nine hours a week for private time. Nine hours for a child to reach their full cognitive potential is simply not enough. Gato also distinguishes between the class of child. He speaks about the more privilege kids intellectual plight, who’s private time, is probably spent on private lessons and commercial entertainments. To me that was interpreted as since the privilege child’s parents have more disposable income it is wasted on unnecessary luxuries of his/her choice instead of aiding the child’s mental mindset.

All of these iniquities create, as Gato would like to call it, “dependent” human beings, and not just any dependent human beings, the type that can’t even have a plausible format for their own future. He calls this dependency and aimlessness a national’s disease. Gato names a list of things that are killing us as a nation, he writes:

“..drugs, brainless competition, recreational sex, the pornography of violence, gambling, alcohol, and the worst pornography of all- lives devoted to buying things-..” J.T. Gato

These things are all accumulations of dependent personalities. Taking away all our children’s time is effecting he way that they grow up. He states that no school that doesn’t attack these specific “diseases” will be nothing more than deceptive.