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John Taylor Gatto, Against School

John Taylor Gatto, Against School

Read Against School and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. According to Gatto, what is the predominant mood in schools among both students and teachers?

anger

hopelessness

boredom

anxiety

2. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln

were not products of a school system.

did not learn how to read until adulthood.

did not approve of the public school system.

did not live to see the establishment of a public school system.

3. In origin, our public school system is

Greek.

Prussian.

Arabic.

English.

4. Gatto suggests that the core goal of our educational system is

to render the populace manageable.

to produce pious Christians.

to maintain the status quo.

to produce sturdy, self-sufficient individualists.

5. Above all, Americans are trained in school to become good

consumers.

citizens.

team players.

patriots.