3. My own experiences in high school affirm Gatto's argument that schools function to "habituate" students to authority.

Gatto says that public schools are machines that produce obedient citizens that conform to society. I agree with this because my experience in public school was this way. I never felt like school helped me to find my path in life. It told me to get a job, whatever that may be, and pay my taxes. There were no inspirational classes though, that would teach me what kind of job I might like. I learned only the basics of math, reading, and writing, and the way those subjects were taught were by the book. There were no inspirational ways of thinking involved either, just memorization. Well what if I am not good at memorization, like so many other Americans? In my experience I was just out of luck. The only time I was inspired was when I dropped below a C average, and I wouldn’t be able to graduate; and how was I inspired? Do better, that is what I was told, but there was nothing about how I should achieve that.