The Edukators by: Hans Weingarther

The happiest day of our life

Listening to the song "The happiest day of our life" we can infer by the letter we can understand that teachers are painfull when they are in school but when they reach home they are a muppet. So, we can infeer that the teachers veint their anger that brought home into their students

When we grew up and went to school

There were certain teachers who would

Hurt the children in any way they could

By pouring their derision upon anything we did

And exposing every weakness

However carefully hidden by the kids

But in the town, it was well known

When they got home at night, their fat and

Psychopathic wives would thrash them

Within inches of their lives

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.