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Ungar was the president of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland from 2001 to 2004. He has been published in Newsweek, The Economist, and The Washington Post. This particular essay was first published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. His extensive work in a college setting, as well as his background in writing for prestigious publications all help contribute to his credibility. As a college president, he would have in depth knowledge of what a liberal arts education entails, along with the costs and benefits associated with higher education. He also would have experience with the specific misperceptions he is addressing in his essay. This may create a bias in his writing, because he obviously favors a traditional college path, as opposed to technical or vocational school, but his piece focuses on misconceptions associated with the liberal arts, and is not a pro-con of the different areas of study, so I do not believe the bias is relevant. There are many more important aspects to this essay that make it

Mandatory, enforced schooling is common all over the world, and is generally seen as a public good, and a privilege of first world countries. However, author and teacher John Gatto argues that mandatory schooling destroys your ability to be free thinkers and therefore should not exist, in his piece “Against School”. Despite his effective use of ethos, Gatto’s argument fails to be convincing due to logical fallacies, and a lack of evidence or first hand experience.

The essay ‘Against the school’ by John Taylor Gatto draws our attention on to all the cons of attending twelve years of high-school. Gatto has experience in teaching profession for twenty-six years in schools of Manhattan, he shares from his experience that he majored in boredom and could see that everywhere around him. He also points out the initial reason why schools came into existence and what the purpose it fulfils now. He also educates us on the fact that all the great discoverers never attended school and were self-educated.The main idea Gatto addresses in his article are that public schooling is doing the youth an injustice.He implies that the purpose of schooling, now is to turn children into good employes and someone who follows orders.

Today, education enables us to enlarge our knowledge and open doors for opportunities to the path of having a good future. In the five readings, each written by a different author, there was a lesson learned and something to take away from each one. Reading through the passages by Mann, Moore, Malcolm X, Gatto, Rose, and Anyon, each author contributed his or her point of view on general public education. This topic can be very argumentative depending on the quality of education people receive. Education today is the single most important mean for individuals to achieve their personal goals in the workforce.

While the term liberal education is heard from the most prestigious university to an inner city community college, the phrase itself has a hazy definition at best. While educators across America struggle with the definition of the phrase, William Cronon uses purpose, structure, and appeals in his essay "Only Connect: The Goals of Liberal education," to define a liberally educated being and the characteristics that such an education should impart. Cronon capitalizes on inductive structuring to lead the reader along, gently building each new statement upon a foundation of previous ideas. This effectively leads the reader to a strange

Class after class, day after day, I often sense a massive amount of repetition with school. Each lesson feels more like a chore than an actual learning experience. That’s the way school has always been though, like a job. It is hard to note that there is any sort of progress being made in terms of the everyday learning experience. In his essay, Against School, educator John Taylor Gatto claims that the everyday boredom of school is truly meant to demoralize and dumb down students, destroying individuality and the ability to create independent and critical thinkers. Gatto explains how children are not really growing up, they are only getting older, indicating that public schools exist only to “cripple our kids.” By using his experience in the classroom, Gatto creates an element of pathos and develops a structure which almost fools readers into inferencing what his opinion truly is. Gatto ultimately, through these rhetorical devices, wants to ignite thoughts about what the true purpose of school is, displaying the modern day public school education as a factory to create a mindless population of students.

School, everyone summons different thoughts and connotations whenever they hear that word. Although people range in their opinions of school, many can agree that schools all have the same goal: to educate their students. This is proving to be false; John Taylor Gatto provides evidence of this in his essay, “Against School.” Within this text he explains how schools are not educating students to be the best they can be, instead teachers are teaching them to become role players in today’s society and to be desensitized from their natural creativity. Gatto, a three time New York Teacher of the Year, has had his fair share of teaching. Gatto provides evidence to the audience that they have been wrong all along about the way a school functions. His ideals prove that the schooling systems in today’s society are not what they seem; schools are thought to develop and help a student unlock their full potential but through the evidence that Gatto provides us he shows that the education system does anything but that. He shows us this by appealing to the audience’s logos and pathos or their logical and emotional natures.

I agree with the author because he makes some good points in the article stating that, "The disruptive potential of a liberal education is not so much that it has no practical use but that the end result for those who engage in its rigor is unpredictable". Which means that people can take this matter into three own hands and build something that can help the world in the future. As an example one of my classmates stated that people are using the liberal arts to help design something to help us win a war. Also I think the author has a point about how we should let the children learn what they want to learn and not always

The main purpose of this article is to examine various research on the etiology of stuttering. The experimental research explored various brain circuitries involved, specifically the the basal ganglia. Furthermore, the meta-analysis discussed neuroimaging, lesion, pharmacological, and genetic studies on the neural circuitries connected to persistent developmental stuttering and acquired neurogenic stuttering.

1)F.Scott Christopher and Tiffani S. Kisler(2012)surveyed mental health issues faced by women who experienced intimate partner violence.339 college women were surveyed and analysis showed that verbal aggression and minor and major physical violence overlapped.Experiences of sexual assault and minor physical violence also co-occurred.Women who experienced verbal and physical abuse but not sexual violence showed symptoms of hostility,anxiety,and depression and those who experienced sexual abuse displayed signs of depression.

To conclude, the idea of teaching writing with CALL definitely offers much in the way of learning value. Particularly the concept of giving feedback to a learner in a variety of approaches gives more potential for learning than previously ever predicted. The many different forms of feedback discussed in this assignment isolate different learning methods and responses from a student. There are two studies that look specifically into how effective online learning environments are and both indicated that automated feedback adds significance to student writing, although students do not appear to enjoy the process as much as being in a classroom. These studies identify two important points, that learning how to write should be engaging and that other real people tend to make it more so. Of these two studies, one was a huge data sample and one was

John Taylor Gatto fiercely defends his beliefs on the corruption of compulsory education in his book Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. He holds true that the institutionalization of education has taken away the individual exploration of learning; that education has essentially become “schooling” (Gatto 28). Compulsory education’s major flaw is its existence as a “network” whose sole purpose is to churn out citizens who will fit into the American workforce (Gatto 53). An alternative to compulsory education is homeschooling, and if Gatto were to decide, all children would be homeschooled within their individual community. Yet, in what John Dewey would call today’s “progressive society,” an increased expectation of global participation requires children’s education to expand beyond their home (35). Parents cannot expect to provide their children with the ever-expanding breadth of knowledge in the world, making compulsory education a necessary, although revisable, institution.

In John Henry Cardinal Newman’s discourse “The Ideas of a University” (1852), he sought to answer the question, “What is there is to show for the expense of a University; what is the real worth in the market of the article called ‘a Liberal Education.’” While this question was asked in the 1800s, many in today’s society still ask it today. One issue Newman argues for is the purpose of a university education, specifically the “utility” of the Liberal Arts. Although around one hundred and fifty years later, in many ways Newman’s claims and arguments on the issue of education in his time can be related to the issue of education in society today. Newman argues that universities should teach “all branches of knowledge” in order to fulfill its ultimate function in producing useful members of society through a process of nurturing the mind; furthermore, this production is the duty of human beings to their society, nation, and world.

Moreover (Chickering & Braskamp, 2009) argue that there are more outcomes from liberal education such as progressing from