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Schools

While sitting with my laptop on a sunny Sunday, trying to write – what seems to be a superfluous english essay, i let my mind drift and suddenly i am tempted to believe that:
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” (Quote: Albert Einstein), and use those words as an excuse to let it all be, and go seize the day.
I have always been told to consider it a privilegie being able to go to school, and i actually have – most of the time at least. During my schooling i have only accasionally experienced “dark sarcasm in the classroom” (Pink Floyd; Another Brick in the Wall part. 2), just once in a while seen myself as a bird trapped in its cage (William Blake: The Schoolboy 3rd stanza), but not once have i been even close to being attacked by a teacher who believed i was an alien (Stephen King: Suffer the little Children). Still i have often seen myself flying out of the classroom window, wondering what was going on outside in that parrallel world on the other side of the wall. It can seem hard to relate latin verbs or the ancient society’s most crucial problems to the real world and our future outsite the classroom.
The question is now essential: How is it possible to connect the real world with the foundation which is sometimes crucial to understand the world’s complexity? But it seems that other problems use to/and still does question the schoolsystem on whole other areas.
The central problem expressed in The Pink Floyd song, Another brick in the wall (part II) is not so much the education’s relevans, but mostly focused on the idea of school as a factory, that creates students who are all the same. Students who are all just bricks in the wall – the wall being the society and the students being bricks, since bricks makes the best walls. Summed up, the factory – school creates students who are perfectly fit for society, but who are identical and without individuality. The fact that school is seen as a factory is obvious if you consult the musicvideo, all the children are sent on an assembly line, through a tunnel, and comes out sitting identical by their identic desks.
In the musicvideo glimps of an hammer is seen, for an example when the children are all dumped in the container and afterwards masted through a kødhakker.. :P The hammer is connected to both the titel of the song and the titel of the album since both bricks and a hammer is building instruments and the wall is an element in the final building. More important the hammer has an abillity to both constructe and destroy connected with the school children the hammer could symbolise Pink Floyd’s view of schools and how they construct students who are perfect instruments to society, but alongside breaks down the children as unique individuals.
The education is reproduced, through the video as very old-fashion. The teacher makes the children repeat his words exactly which reduces the number of thoughts the children need to think – the independence is limited to an absolute minimum.
– Maybe the statement: “We don’t need no education” is to be understod as We don’t need this kind of education, it does not seem as though it is education in general which is the problem, but the type of old-fashion education which is expressed in the beginning of the musicvideo, where the teacher yells at the maincharacter – Pink, because he is doing poetry instead of paying attion to the lessons. To write poetry it takes independent thoughts and creativity compared to the listen-and-repeat kind of education, and the opinion which Roger Waters and Pink Floyd expresses is that the independence and creativity must be brought into the lessons.
School defined as a place of old-fashion education and pure repetition is also shown in the Stephen King short-story Suffer The Little Children. It says: “giving just a little more rope he would hang himself..”... Which shows, that the teacher sees it as part of her job to pressure the students to make as much effort as possible. Besides that the educational idealism is expressed when the teacher ask her student, Robert, to use the word tomorrow in a sentence and he says: “Tomorrow something bad will happen,” (page number + maybe more detailed quotes will follow when i get my hands on the text! :P). As in Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in The Wall it is a one-way, one-answer and in generel very structered education – the students influence is never topical.
I have only occasionally expierienced the old-fashion education described, and during my schooling a lot of teachers have made an effort to turn the classes into a toway conversation where lots of different points of views are reproduced, and i think it is maybe a sign, that the schoolsystem has devolped an now facing other problems than earlier. It seems that the focus on school as an old-fashion instution based on disiplin has lead to radical changes within the danish schoolsystem. Concluded is what is expressed in the texts a focus on the answer in a schoolsituation, focus on the goal. The devolpment i have expierenced is a focus that moves from the goal to the way of reaching it – focus on the means, which more directly can be related to situations in the real life. It it is indeed more difficult to learn all information by heart compared to learning how to find the needed informations.
That it seems the schoolsystem has innovated and partly solved some of the problems representated i Another Brick in the Wall and Suffer the little children, does not mean school finished trying to reinvent itself side by side with the society – perhaps we will need song similar to Pink Floyds and fiction texts like Stephen Kings to focus on the problems the devolped school has and will have in the near future.

While sitting with my laptop on a sunny Sunday, trying to write – what seems to be a superfluous english essay, I let my mind drift and suddenly i am tempted to believe that:
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” (Quote: Albert Einstein), and use those words as an excuse to let it all be, and go seize the day.
I have always been told to consider it a privilegie being able to go to school, and I actually have – most of the time at least. During my schooling i have onlyo occasionally experienced “dark sarcasm in the classroom” (Pink Floyd; Another Brick in the Wall part. 2), just once in a while seen myself as a bird trapped in its cage (William Blake: The Schoolboy 3rd stanza), but not once have i been even close to being attacked by a teacher who believed I was an alien (Stephen King: Suffer the little Children). Still i have often seen myself flying out of the classroom window, wondering what was going on outside in that parrallel world on the other side of the wall. It can seem hard to relate latin verbs or the ancient society’s most crucial problems to the real world and our future outside the classroom.
The question is now essential: How is it possible to connect the real world with the foundation, which is sometimes crucial to understand the world’s complexity? But it seems that other problems use to/and still do question the schoolsystem on whole other areas.
The central problem expressed in The Pink Floyd song, Another brick in the wall (part II) is not so much the education’s relevans, but mostly focused on the idea of school as a factory, that creates students who are all the same. Students who are all just bricks in the wall – the wall being the society and the students being bricks, since bricks makes the best walls. Summed up, the factory – school creates students who are perfectly fit for society, but who are identical and without individuality. The fact that school is seen as a factory is obvious if you consult the musicvideo, all the children are sent on an assembly line, through a tunnel, and comes out sitting identical by their identic desks.
In the musicvideo glimps of an hammer is seen, for an example when the children are all dumped in the container and afterwards masted through a kødhakker.. :P The hammer is connected to both the titel of the song and the titel of the album since both bricks and a hammer is building instruments and the wall is an element in the final building. More important the hammer has an abillity to both construct and destroy connected with the school children the hammer could symbolise Pink Floyd’s view on schools and how they construct students who are perfect instruments to society, but alongside breaks down the children as unique individuals.
Education is reproduced, through the video as very old-fashioned. The teacher makes the children repeat his words exactly, which reduces the number of thoughts the children need to think through – the independence is limited to an absolute minimum.
– Maybe the statement: “We don’t need no education” is to be understod as We don’t need this kind of education, it does not seem as though it is education in general which is the problem, but the type of old-fashioned education which is expressed in the beginning of the musicvideo, where the teacher yells at the main character – Pink, because he is doing poetry instead of paying attention to the lessons. To write poetry, it takes independent thoughts and creativity compared to the listen-and-repeat kind of education, and the opinion which Roger Waters and Pink Floyd expresses is that the independence and creativity must be brought into the lessons.
School defined as a place of old-fashioned education and pure repetition is also shown in the Stephen King short-story Suffer The Little Children. It says: “giving just a little more rope he would hang himself..”... Which shows, that the teacher sees it as a part of her job to pressure the students to make as much effort as possible. Besides that the educational idealism is expressed when the teacher asks her student, Robert, to use the word tomorrow in a sentence and he says: “Tomorrow something bad will happen,” (page number + maybe more detailed quotes will follow when i get my hands on the text! :P). As in Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in The Wall it is a one-way, one-answer and in generel very structered education – the students influence is never topical.
I have only occasionally expierienced the old-fashion education described, and during my schooling a lot of teachers have made an effort to turn the classes into a toway conversation where lots of different points of views are reproduced, and i think it is maybe a sign, that the schoolsystem has devolped an now facing other problems than earlier. It seems that the focus on school as an old-fashion instution based on disiplin has lead to radical changes within the danish schoolsystem. Concluded is what is expressed in the texts a focus on the answer in a schoolsituation, focus on the goal. The devolpment i have expierenced is a focus that moves from the goal to the way of reaching it – focus on the means, which more directly can be related to situations in the real life. It it is indeed more difficult to learn all information by heart compared to learning how to find the needed informations.
That it seems the schoolsystem has innovated and partly solved some of the problems presented in Another Brick in the Wall and Suffer the little children, does not mean school finished trying to reinvent itself side by side with the society – perhaps we will need song similar to Pink Floyds and fiction texts like Stephen Kings to focus on the problems the devolped school has and will have in the near future.


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I think think this is everything so far, not many mistakes, brilliant job, keep up the good work, it will have an excellent result!

ja det var så lidt!!!