Gatto's argument goes a lot further than just education reform. He argues that schools - as we know it today - should be abolished altogether. There are two ot

Gatto's argument goes a lot further than just education reform. He argues that schools - as we know it today - should be abolished altogether. There are two other links at the bottom of that article. Read those, and you'll begin to see what he's getting at (that the school is a result of the capitalist need for workers and mindless consumers). The alternatives he offers, however, are rather scary alternatives to capitalism itself. Scary - at least - to me. As for alternatives to grades: see pg's essay After Credentials http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html Like most of these articles, he's half-right.