John Taylor Gatto, former New York State Teacher of the Year, vividly portrays the pervasive issue of boredom in schools. Reflecting on his thirty-year teaching career, Gatto observed that boredom was rampant among students, driven by a curriculum that often felt irrelevant and uninspiring.

His critique challenges the conventional approach to education, questioning whether the current system truly serves the best interests of students or if it merely perpetuates a cycle of conformity and mediocrity.