Rhetoric about Education

In John Taylor Gatto's essay Against School, the rhetoric devices of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos are employed. Gatto first sets up the logos with the authority to splatter his opinions all over you by saying he has taught for thirty years. However, by the end of his essay you have to wonder if he taught anything at all within the system he describes. He claims that he 'had to defy custom, and even bend the law' to help kids break out of the trap of boredom that our education system has set up for them, but he did not explain that claim. Instead he goes on about losing his job because of a medical leave, utilizing the logical fallacy of shifting the issue. Gatto describes our Education system's purpose in Ad Hominem fashion of extending childhood. Gatto also uses the logical fallacy of card stacking when describing the alternative of homeschooling with an especial affinity for that "Unschooling" method. His false analogy of the great minds developing in an unschooled world is very much a false analogy when you consider the great minds tht have developed in our public education system as well. He also failed to mention those disasters of unschooling experiements which are just seriously uneducated as well. Against School, begins by establishing authority by association to the school system, but the authority is non existant in regards to the homeschooling system. He mentions a few statistics without backing up their origin, such as two million happy homeschoolers. The hasty generalization fails to link happy with educated other than the handful of historical famous people who happened to find an education anyway, while the article does give dates about the beginnings of the 'school system's teeth' getting into the United States around 1905-1915, dates that do not correspond with the Unschooled great minds he refers to. The failure to recognize the great ones who have come above the school system leaves this rhetoric looking very empty and not very persuasive.
Conversely, in I Just Wanna Be Average by Mike Rose, The rhetoric is more powerful. He shows instead of telling his authority of his topic. Using the device of Pathos, carefully taking you through his own history he clearly shows the failure of the school system's testing methods, and balances with the unlikely and accidental built in recovery device in the compulsory school's ineffecient overworked, underpaid, seriously flawed educational system. His rhetoric is more effective because it is balanced between failure and success. Without coming right out and telling the reader, he makes a brilliant point that the system only has half a chance of success if there is a dedicated, passionate, committed, hard working human in the process. Education doesn't happen in a system, it happens in a person. While Gatto talks about "introducing students to competent adults," Rose does introduce you to a competent adult. When Gatto is telling you his theories about what would work and what doesn't, Rose is helping you create your own theory. Rose tells a success story while Gatto complains on and on.
Both of these versions of rhetoric seem to have a similar message, but the approach and effectiveness of each are very different. Gatto's "simple and glorious solution" to let them manage themselves, is the logical fallacy of begging the question. When it comes to Rose rhetoric at least I the reader came up with my own logical fallacy which is if there are only one in 30 teachers that are competent, then let all students have at least 30 teachers.