Education System in Present Era

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Education System in Present Era
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Education play a pivotal role in everybody’s lives. Education as a process refers to
facilitating learning or acquisition of knowledge, skills vales beliefs and habit. In the view of
John Taylor Gatto, education is its strict sense of term could not be realized because the nature of
school institution in American society is very mechanical. Therefore the emergence of boredom.
He views boredom as the result of mutual process, both the parties of student and the teachers
cannot inculcate the independent thinking, therefore the student remain disinterested or a mere a
passive recipient of mechanical system. In the whole process, Gatto learns that there is divide
between education and schooling. He explains further stating that schooling refers to the time
period taken by a student to do sometime in that period of time. Education refers to when the kid
really wants to know something, that is, like if the kid really wants to get educated or not. The
interest to leaning a new thing must come from within, and the schooling system should work in
such a way , so that it can keep the child motivated. In Gattos’s view schooling system is not
able to do so.
In 2010, American documentary film by Davis Guggenheim named “Waiting for
‘Superman’” was released. This film aims to criticize the American public education system; the
film not only showed the various ways in which school differ from each other but also showed
the vivid picture of selecting the students in the school. The students are chosen not on the basis
of merits or their performance but based on lottery, which is a sheer chance factor called luck.
This film narrates the present pictures of American school and how they have failed in
understanding the actual need to the students. The number of dropout factories is over 40 % of
the students and they do not graduate in time (Weber). This film also represent the Geofreey
Canda’s solution to this problem was to create charter school , that would provide the children
and their parents to have option within the public schools systems. These schools are hoped to

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decrease the dropout rates, increase the number of student who attend the college and so on.
However when the movie ends by showing the way in which the candidates are processed in
charters school. The school leaves the children behind based on the lottery system, thus the entire
purpose for which things are created fails.
Owing to the view’s of Gatto, schools are becoming mere a business centers, that do not
address the issues rather procrastinate the burgeoning issues by devising certain plans, like that
of creating lottery system. Similar to the views of Gatto, this documentary illustrate the problem
of the bad teachers and the entire administration behind it supports it. The school system work in
the based format, where the fake promises are made like, only 10 percent of the top students will
go on to the “white collar”, and the 90 percent will either learn trade or unskilled labor. The
schools systems are based on the antediluvian economic system that contains the problem of bad
teacher as well as bad administration. These kinds of scenarios are plaguing the American Public
schools in the 21st century. The film showcases the problem where the problem of the teacher
tenure is outdated and it has grown itself to the malignant system. The design is does in such a
way, that enable to keep the bad teachers in the system. Statistically only one in 2500 teachers
loses their job. Even if the system tries to protect the teachers they are not trying to improve
their skills, turning schools into “drop-out factories”. This movie depicts how insurmountable
loses a school undergoes when it back up a bad teacher. The situation is more relatable in the
essay of Gatto, where the creation of situation promised in the boredom. This is because both the
parties think neither whatever they are doing for each other is nor driving them in the right
direction. The interesting fact is they already know it, the teachers feel the student do not have
the right diligence to study and the student feel the teacher possess the right amount of
intelligence to deal with the topic. Hence there is creation of the situation of boredom and this