How can you have any pudding

Gatto shows his stance on school very clearly, it's all wrong, the system is wrong, the methods are wrong, we should abolish it. I take a more mild view on the subject, not an extreme one way or another.
To me, the gaping hole in Gatto's theory is that he claims the 6 class a day for 5 days a week for 9 months a year for 12 years is an awful way to go about schooling, however he fails to give an alternative as to how education SHOULD be managed. The closest he comes is in the last sentence with "Let them manage themselves", and while that may provide some idea as to what Gatto wants, I think there is at least some required structure.
I think what really needs to be done is simply less forced and regurgitated information, and more information that seems a privilege to be learning, and facilitated discussions as opposed to studying names of characters and matching them on a quiz.