In the speech “Here I stand” By Erica Goldson makes reasons why the American schooling system is more of a mind washing system than a learning system. She uses the examples that we all go to school to just memorize something to lose it later. She also explains how that some people’s one goal is to get out of there as early as they can. She says that the system brain washes us to the lowest but safe level. She supports this because she says that we have one goal and the goal is to get out as soon a possible. She also says, that we never really learn anything because all we do is memorize stuff to just later lose it when we have to memorize something else. She really doesn’t change her idea much because she supports it the whole speech with