Whats Crippling Us?

Bradbury talks about society being very controlled. He mentions how people don't read books because they are "against the law," and that limits how much the society can learn. People only learn what the leaders want them to learn. Bradbury also talks about how being social in the society is controlled. For one person social means " talking about how strange the world is," but to the leaders of the society social means "to get a bunch of people together and not let them talk". By this statement I think he is referring to school. There are hundreds of kids in one building but they are not allowed to talk because they are in class, but the teachers still consider school to be a social event.
Gatto also talks about society being very controlled. He does not think school is necessary for children because in school kids don't learn how to be independent or how to explore. He says that school is more of a "natural selection". He says that "schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments," he explains that school is used to see if you are fit for the society. The schools don't push you to do better then you can because they don't need to. The students are board with learning and so are the teachers. The teachers "are not willing to learn" new things either. By the teachers not learning new things that also restrict what the kids can learn because they kids are learning from the teachers. 
I do agree with Gatto. I think that school is a type or natural selection. Everyone takes the same test to find out who is the smartest and what job they can be good at. I also agree how Gatto explains that kids don't learn how to be independent in school. We have so many teachers and staff around us at school we don't need to be independent.