Gatto talks about a man who has broken down, in his opinion, the purpose of education into six fundamental functions. These functions were created by Alexander Inglis. Gatto himself claims that if one "innocently" believed in his three educational objectives, one would follow those functions designed by Inglis. Inglis breaks down schooling into: adaptive or adaptive, intergrading, diagnostic and directive, differentiative, selective and finally preparatory functions. Gatto explains, “This, unfortunately, is the purpose of compulsory public education in this country” (Gatto 147). Under these circumstances it could be determined that Gatto compares his educational goals to those of Inglis' collapse of the public education one might receive in