Robert Velardi

In this part of the book it talked about an idea of a utopia.  Utopia basically is an ideology that everything in society is perfect.  It is relatively impossible to ever obtain a utopia because everybody has different beliefs about things, and this tends to cause a conflict between two opposing parties with different ideas.  This can be seen with the current political situation.  It is a shame that everybody cannot get along because otherwise this would make everyday society better for everybody all together.  In the books humans were trying to detach themselves so that they would have no emotions about anything at all.  Deaths were also removed from children's books because they felt it was wrong to expose children to this.  Personally, I think that death should not be withheld from children because it is the inevitable, and unfortunately, children will have to face death sooner or later One thing that we talked about was the amount of technolog...

The book that my group is working on is The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling.  The author is John Taylor Gatto.  John Gatto is a former school teacher for nearly 30 years, and in his book you can really tell that he is all over the place with the different topics that he discusses, by the way that he jumps all over the place.  To be completely honest the book is pretty difficult to understand/read because he is all over the place, it is almost like he has turrets as he is writing his book.  The cover of the book is very interesting, and does a good job at depicting what the book is going to be about.  It shows three students running into a building with a lock on it, that is supposed to be representing a prison.  On the top of building it says "FORCED SCHOOLING", then on the other side of the building it shows the same kids that were running into the building coming out as wind up toys ...