We Don’t Need No Education

From Pink Floyd’s music masterpiece, The Wall, comes that haunting phrase, “We don’t need no education.” Roger Waters, in his usual veiled style, hit the future of education squarely on the head. The American public education system was put in place to provide opportunities to learn for all children in our great nation. Since its implementation, it has gone into a perpetual slide into creating a group of mediocre, poorly equipped young adults, ill prepared to face the challenges of the future. It has also turned the teachers into a nest of liberal vipers, intent on turning our children into right wing environmentalist kooks.

My two oldest children were forced to sit through modules on the pseudo science of global warming. I agree that there is such a thing as global warming because there is evidence of ice ages and I do not see any glaciers in my back yard. However, forcing my children to watch Hollywood’s version of man’s destructive power, makes me believe that there is more on the agenda than science. My oldest daughter did the family proud. She prefaced each response when asked a question with, “The myth of global warming is…” She also asked her teacher which was the most abundant green house gas. He said CO2 and she pulled out the scientific evidence that it was H2O. He begrudgingly agreed. This is one example of the attempt to create a group of children that despise what man has accomplished and the attempt to plant the seeds of socialism into our youth.

When I first heard Another Brick In The Wall Part 2, my thought was that his grammar was incorrect. My second thought was this was a horrible message to be giving to children. Telling them that an education is not important is a terrible thing. My third thought was that this was a brilliant commentary on the modern educational system. By using poor grammar and telling children that education is something they do not need, Waters uses his amazing powers of observation to get at the heart of the matter. All children think that school is lame. Most children do not see the benefit of the education they are forced to endure, some to the point of dropping out and destroying the primary opportunity to get ahead in life. Those children that drop out are the ones most in need of finishing and seeing the myriad of pathways that are available. Unfortunately, many end up on the continuing path of incarceration.



Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

We don't need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

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Cobb