We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, 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
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
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
You! Yes, you behind the bike stands
Stand still, laddy!
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: George Roger Waters
Another Brick in the Wall lyrics © Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd
C.: I just ate a quarter-pound hamburger, and I’m still hungry!
d.: I ate my regular hamburger, which is one-third of a pound, and I’m full.
C.: That doesn’t make any sense. I had a larger burger. That’’s why it const more than yours did.
d.: I thought you were good at math now, Cal.E.
C.: I am. I know that four is more than three, so my burger was bigger than yours.
d.: No, Cal.E., as every third grader knows, one-third is more than one-fourth.
C.: Well, I didn’t go to third grade. I concentrated on more important things.
d.: Like what?
C.: Quantum Physics, Calculus, and other advanced math courses. I went to the on-line Brick School. The song at the beginning of the blog was our theme song. Basically, this school teaches you the important stuff without becoming just another brick in the educational wall that is developed to hold us back. Third grade math isn’t important, d.c.
d.: Really? Well, if you’d had third grade math, which teaches students basic fractions, you would know that the quarter-pounder that you ordered was smaller than my regular burger. You wouldn’t have paid more for less.
That’s the problem with the world today, everyone wants to concentrate on the spectacular without learning the basics. I don’’t know how you learned quantum physics without knowing basic fractions, but you do know a lot of math, just not the type that will help you in the everyday world.
C.: LIke what?
d.: LIke how to add and subtract figures quickly in your head, so you’ll know if you’re getting the right amount of change if you use cash to buy something.
C.: Quickly, what’s twenty-seven plus twenty-one?
d.: Forty-eight. Eudora says that she’d rather ask me simple math like that than use a calculator, because I can add and subtract and multiply in my head faster than she can type the numbers into a calculator. Doing long division may take me longer, but I can usually come up with the right answer without using a calculator. LIke I said, no one wants to do basic stuff like that anymore.
When I was participating in endurance events, I would know when my techniques needed to be corrected. If my swim times were slow, I’d get in the pool and concentrate on practicing drills. Those drills are designed to make one’s form ideal. If my bike times weren’t as good as I would like for them to be, I’d go to a spinning class to increase my speed. If my run times weren’t good, I’d go to the track at the high school and do Faartlecks.
C.: Hee,hee.
d.: I mean intervals. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go because I have something important to do.
C.: Oh, that’s right, you were going to take that basic writing course to improve your writing. Is it time for that class, d.c.?
d.: It is, but I have something more important to do.
C.: What’s that?
d.: I’m going to write the next blockbuster best seller.
C.: What’s it going to be about?
d.: IDK, Cal.E., but when I sit down at my computer and start typing, it should come to me. I don’t need that class to tell me how to do research or structure my sentences, or how to arrange the manuscript to grip the audience from the first scene. I can figure that out on my own.
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