Gatto has really made me think about this one:
"The feeding frenzy of formal schooling has already wounded us seriously in our ability to form families and communities, by bleeding away time we need with our children and our children need with us. That’s why I say we need less school, not more….
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop—then they blame the family for its failure to be a family."
My first response is WOW! You are good!
Then I have to read it again...and I can't help but think about the less fortunate students who really need more school and less of the influence from home. Then I go in circles...well, if they did have "less school" would they have less domestic issues to deal with and that be a way to deal with improvement of family failure?
Another reactive thought is the comparison of our educational system to that of other nations viewed as ahead of us; they don't have less school. Hmm...maybe it's the kind of school...
I really can't make up my mind to agree or disagree with this statement, but I do know I like it...Gatto has made me reconsider where the blame should be placed concerning educational failures and reminded me of the significance of education outside of formal schooling...Family really is more significant than it is often regarded.