Chalk's Illustratioins of Gattos and Feire's charges against education

Chalk shows the real lives of teachers in the educations system. Gatto states that he as well as his students are bored because of the educational system. In the movies Chalk Mr. Lawery reads lines off of the chalk board and makes his students repeat it with him. This is two of Gatto's charges against the educational system; the students are bored as well as the teacher and it is a prime example of the banking method. The teacher reads the information and the students repeat it and "store" it in their minds. Gatto also states that the system says that the teachers are the authority and that they are always right. Mr. Stroup talks to one of his students for using words that are too big and that the teacher does not understand. So the student is wrong for trying to use his full potential because it makes the teacher look bad. Again Mr Lawery's way of teaching is not letting the kids live the lessons of life by preaching the information he wants the students to know. As stated by Gatto "the students are filed away through the lack of creativity." Mr. Stroup pretend calls a student’s parent and says that he has a bad grade. He wouldn’t tell the student why he was in trouble. The he just made him leave afterwards. That was an example of a statement made by Gatto; “the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his own professional authority. He had no right to do that but he did it anyways.