The Purpose Of Education
...the most important step in your pursuit for education. Going through those four years to get that ever-so-touted high school diploma is definitely tough but is the most important thing because, in all reality, after that you could try to go out an get a type of job that you would have for the rest of your life. Just as with the sandwich, having the meat is important, because technically, if you wanted you could just slap that last piece of bread on that sandwich and enjoy it. But, everyone knows that that sandwich would seem pretty dry that way and that if you wanted to have the best sandwich, then you would either finish it off by spreading some mustard or mayonnaise on that last slice of bread before enjoying it. Just as with education, if you want to have the best education, then you would go to college after high school, because then that way you could be attaining education and finishing the concept of education the best way. So, that’s my outlook on education. Let’s go more into depth with this whole concept of education though, shall we? I agree and disagree with Paulo Freire and John Taylor Gatto that education is a means to oppress populations. First I’ll start off with why I agree that it is a means to oppress populations. It becomes a means to oppress the populations when you have students acting like robots. The oppressors are the teachers, the school district, and the governors. As Freire, said in “The Banking Concept of Education”, the students accept their ignorance as justifying the teacher’s existence, and they never discover that they educate the teacher. Another way the oppressors do their job is not by caring to have the world revealed or transformed but yet, by minimizing the students’ creative power and by stimulating their credulity. Just like Gatto was saying in “Against School” only in a different kind of way. Kids should be taking an education and not just receiving one. School gets to be devastating after a while. Like Gatto said, “Do we really need school? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary?” I mean, after a while that whole routine of having to go through school wears on you, believe me I would think I know, being that I’ve been in school non-stop since kindergarten and now I’m in college. Yet, at the same time that brings me to my other point, which is that I kind of disagree as well. That whole routine thing, no matter how annoying it is, provides us kids, teenagers, and young adults, with the fact that when we get into the so-called “real world”, we’re going to have to live by a routine at the workplace. Also, going back to Freire I think sometimes we need the teachers to be oppressors, because without that we w...