'Why School?'

   "Why School?" By Mike Rose proposes many thought provoking thoughts while reading.. He brings up interesting statistics and thoughts that you're aware of, but don't put too much thought into. Maybe because you're naive to whats happening around you, or you're simply uneducated. 

- Among the poorest Americans, the threats to sustenance, shelter, and health are continuous, brutal, and increasing. 
-  From 2000 to 2008, at least five million more Americans fell into poverty. By 2010, a shocking 22 percent of children under eighteen were poor.

  And he also reveals the importance of teaching- which personally, was encouraging for me since my ultimate goal is to be an Elementary Education teacher helping young children reach their full potential 

- Teaching is such remarkable work, revealing the sublimity of development, of learning, of the continual human effort toward mastery and the inevitable disappointment that is part and parcel of the process of attaining competence. Through teaching you learn so much about intelligence, will, desire, frustration, foible, anger, resistance—the human drama. Teaching also grounds you, bringing you closer to the daily consequences of policy decisions, organizational norms, broad-scale social ideologies.

- We seem trapped in a language of schooling that stresses economics, accountability, and compliance.