Freire and Gatto

Both Freire and Gatto agree that most educational instructors don't take that extra step to push their students or give them an initiative to do it. They also don't give them a complete learning experience such as actually experiencing it. Friere explains, "Liberating education consists of acts of cognition, not transferals of information." This means that students aren't personally experiencing the education they need. It's not about just writing in a text book and listening, it's about hands on and trial and error. Gatto also explains the differentiating function by saying, " children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best." This being that children aren't being pushed and can't experience the education and personal experience they deserve. They both agree that teachers need to actually do what they're paid to do and that's giving their students the education they need and deserve. 

Something else they'd agree on is how schools are trying to conform their students. Freire explains, "Education must begin with a solution of the teacher-student contradiction.." Meaning teachers and students must have an understanding of their roles. Not just "The teacher teaches and the students are taught" or "The teacher knows everything and the students know nothing" or even "The teachers talks and the students listen-meekly" all of these are Friere saying that teachers and students conforming to their known roles is totally wrong. You don't need to conform. Or how Gatto states that, "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." How the teachers who are conforming are predictable just like how the students being taught become predictable. It all becomes a vicious cycle.