My HS experience vs Gatto (11/12)

I don't think my High School experience was very much like how Gatto claimed high school to be. My teachers were always challenging me to challenge what people said, and to argue my point. In literature classes we were always discussing the piece of text; we never just took it as it is. Even in history classes we read multiple points of view of the same event. In history, we cannot really argue the "truth" but we could understand multiple sides. Of course, in math and science class, which we based on "facts" I took the material how it was. In those subjects we learned how the scientific community knows the subjects. (Now, in college, when I started doing scientific research we actually were able to prove and disprove theories.) Gatto argues that high school is just a passive learning experience. Maybe for some students learning is taking in information to get good grades. But if students want to be more active in the learning process they do challenge the ideas they are learning.