1. "Stay in class where you belong." Make the kids like the class. "Rigged competition of school." "Fear and envy better classes and have contempt for the dumber classes." Come to know your place in school.
Tell students they will succeed future with higher grades when in reality, employers could care less. "Truth and school are incompatible."
2. Be totally focused in the class you're in but drop everything from that class when moving to the next. "no work is worth finishing."
3. There is no individuality in schools. The class is one group, one being that the teacher controls. There are no rights, there are only privileges granted by the teacher. Ex. bathroom/ hallway passes.
4. "Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity." Teachers enforce decisions transmitted by the people who pay them.
We wait on others who are better trained to tell us what to do.
5. Ones self respect is based on other people's views on you. Students are constantly judged and evaluated in school and are given marks and numbers that provide them their self-evaluation. People need to be told what they are worth. Students cannot rely on parents or themselves to evaluate themselves, they have to rely on the word of a certified official(teacher).
6. Students are under constant surveillance. Not a moment goes by where they are not being watched. In school they are watched by all teachers not only just their own and at home they are being watched by their parents. There are always disciplinary standards. Children must be watched to prevent anything going out of order in the society.
Originality was once popular like currency but now its not, now that everything has been thought of and done.
When students are taught "basic skills" it is just a coverup for the governments plan to keep children in school for twelve years. Twelve years of control.
If you are a sponge rather than an interactive individual, you have no role to play in society. "you are not a complete human being, underdeveloped."
"This curriculum produces moral and intellectual paralysis" The curriculum set forth by the board of education is one that will stop intellectuals from BEING intellectuals. There is no way where we can be happy and satisfied with this form of education. The government is in constant control and we are the subordinates who absorb their teaching without much say in what we learn.
"Rich or poor, schoolchildren cannot concentrate on anything for very long. They have a poor sense of time past and to come; they are mistrustful of intimacy (like the children of divorce they really are); they hate solitude, are cruel, materialistic, dependent, passive, violent, timid in the face of the unexpected, addicted to distraction."
I agree strongly with the last statement I copied and pasted. This reading opened up my eyes a little bit more to what I was already "taught" by Andy. School creates, provokes and positively reenforces our bad habits. Many children "learn" their personalities in school. What happens in school provides us with a way of life. How we act in and out of school is because of school. From having to go everyday to having the work in school extend to home life. Gatto is right to say that most people start life off with a twelve year life sentence because we are all kept in an institution to pick up habits that are created by what we have to do in school. All this is kind of confusing sometimes because I can always argue that what I learn is because I want to learn it and when I ask questions and have debates I am stimulating my own mind therefore I am being an intellectual by understanding things my own way. On the other hand though, I am stimulating my own mind with information that was already laid out by the Board of Education. I may think and feel like I am providing my own learning experience but my questions and my analysis are based on the original lesson that the TEACHER provided.
Fanning
What is the main educational goal at SOF? - Jakob
As a former punk rocker how do you use that experience to manage rowdy teenagers? - Kaplan
The best thing someone can give to another is an education.
Took everything for granted as a rock star.
Want to give back by teaching.
Trying to turn kids into intellectuals. (Critical Thinking)
Preparing for Success
LIFE LONG LEARNERS
Knows how and what kids with "problems" go through.
What do you think are the primary goals of students are? teachers? contradict? - Andy S.
Everyone should have their own goals. Own opinions. Not everyone is going to be aligned with everyone else.
Should be able to help each other and student goals should be acknowledged but should also keep selves in mind.
Help each other but also help yourself.
Help have nots
Access to help for haves
Critical Thinkers
Life Long Learners
Schools teach obedience?
Some schools but not SOF.
How much responsibility do you feel for students outside of school?
"Feel responsible but can only have control of what's within my power to control."
(I sat in on the next period class)
SOF = institution?
No, not really
SOF tactics arguable against critics
Cooperative learning. Teaches kids to be analytical and question things. Don't just absorb it.
"Cutting Edge"
Perfect education?
Life Long Learner
No motivation, why?
Fanning's point of view on school is the opposite to that of Gatto's. Fanning believes that he can potentially break the school code that Gatto speaks of and make intellectuals of the students in the public school system. Fanning is basically trying to overturn what Gatto teaches and create a new form of schooling in School of the Future. In a way I feel that both Fanning and Gatto are wrong and right about the school system. I say this because it seems like one big cycle. Like I said before, I can argue that I am being and intellectual in school but on the other hand there is also that undertone that everything is controlled by one unit and there is no "learning" involved, only instructing. But there is also that part of me that feels Gatto is right all the way. Right now I just keep arguing with myself the same point over and over again and it always ends with Gatto's point of view that everything is controlled.
Andy Snyder's class is kind of breaking Gatto's form of teaching. Andy is telling us how things are and what "reality" is. I highly doubt that the public school system wants Andy to tell us all its dirty secrets...or could they? This could all be planned and not Andy's work after all. This is all too confusing. I'm confusing myself, next.
Lisa Delpit on Power and Pedagogy
I've read it three times already! I just haven't analyzed it yet it'll get there it's coming together slowly but surely.
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