Brick in the Wall Part 2
By Pink Floyd
Lyrics
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 teacher 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
[chorus at end by pupils from the Fourth Form Music Class Islington Green School, London]
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 teacher leave us kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher 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
[chorus at end by pupils from the Fourth Form Music Class Islington Green School, London]
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 teacher leave us kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
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The song, brick in the wall part 2, addresses the educational system in schools every where. Roger Waters wrote this song based on his views on formal education, he severely disliked his teachers and felt they were more interested in keeping the kids quiet than teaching them. "All in all it's just another in the wall", this line demonstrates that the teachers shouldn't punish and mistreat the students because in the end all they will ever be is an average person with an average life. Each brick in the wall represents a student who will become just a piece in the machine we call a society. Being a student myself this jumped out at me because I wonder myself if I will become an average joe, or if I can actually make myself something in the real world. This connects to me because, being a realist, I have to wonder if I will be a brick in the wall somewhere working in some brick shaped cubicle for some business. Although highly depressing in a sense, this motivates me to take action in my life! The views that I believe in don't at all match up with Roger water's, I don't think that the students of the world will become "Bricks in the Wall". I hope to disappoint Roger Waters by exceeding his expectations and becoming more than an average joe. This song is a controversial social protest against formal education because it asks the question if education will change the fact that kids are only becoming average citizens with the consistent education they are receiving. It also rises the question if teachers actually care to teach their students instead of keeping them quiet in the classroom. Roger Waters asks the question of are our education systems doing they're best to give are students their education? It also poses the question of are our educational systems truly needed because won't our students turn out the same with or without education? In conclusion Roger Waters wrote this song to pose the question to our educational systems are doing all they can for their students and if we actually need it just to become "bricks in the wall".
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