Another brick in the wall

While the song is not the first example of the antieducation theme in popular music, it comes at a time when increasing numbers of students are questioning the value of their education. Thus, young people are responding to the song with uncommon — and unsettling — enthusiasm.

In May [1980], the South African government banned the song — and the album — "because "Another Brick" had become the anthem of a national strike of more than 10,000 "coloured" (mixed) students and their white supporters. The students had been protesting the inequality of spending on education for the various races, as well as "intimidation" by teachers, whose authority the Pink Floyd song challenges. The government ban forbids radio stations to play the record, stores to sell it, and individuals to own it.

In my opinion, I think education must be the first and most important issue in every person, but one thing is a good system of education and another thing is a bad system of education that controlls and hurt physical and mentally the students. The term “we don’t need no education” can be analyzed in two parts. One is that they don’t need THAT education, this mine, that type of education (opressive, controlative) and the other part is, that kids must not have an education system, that, in my opinion, here is not the message they want to transmit, if not, they want transmit that they dont need an education that becames a no-education.