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.
I completely agree with the proposal of the
movie, we should not follow a strictly system where we don’t have any voice and
rights to think the way each one thinks. We are all persons that are born and
sooner or later died, so we should all have the same access to education. Although, we need a good education in order
not to generate social problems. From my point of view, everyone should have
the same opportunity and the way of teaching should be equal then it is over
the student the idea of choosing what they have already learnt or not, always
following the laws.
The education is a way of maintain the social
control and human behavior imposed by the state, is the state the ones who have
the premise of making the population "good" citizens to a healthy and
harmonious coexistence. I think the education is the one to blame over the
problems in each state.
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