what is crippling us?

Gatto has come to believe that the schooling system only cares about teaching students "1) To make good people 2) To make good citizens 3) To make each person his or her personal best." also that education isn’t all that it has hyped up to be because many philosophers and leaders throughout our history weren’t in the schooling system. The part that really stood out to me stated that "George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln? Someone taught them, to be sure, but they were not products of a school system, and not one of them was ever "graduated" from a secondary school." this stood out to me because I never thought of it that way, so many people that we have looked up to and depended on, didn’t go trough proper schooling. The schooling all just seems the same because we are all taught the same thing, tested on the same thing and encouraged mostly the same way. What also stuck out to me was when Gatto was talking about the integrating function. "This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force." now that this is brought to my attention, I don’t think there are ways to change the system. In Fahrenheit 451, the people in the society seem to all think a certain way. I came to that conclusion when Montag asked, "What do you talk about?" when Clarisse said her family just sits around and talks; that seems unheard of in their neighborhood. Also it seems that Gatto and Bradbury have a connection when saying people are becoming more and more alike. This was shown when Montag thought "these men (referring to the other firemen) were all mirror images of himself!" I am persuaded by both Gatto and Bradbury's writings because as our schools have created us to be so similar and have similar goals of being our best that we can be.