~ Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd ~

♫ Another Brick in the Wall part 2 was composed by The Pink Floyd (a British group).

This title is the 5th of the album “The Wall” released in 1979. It is also the most famous 3 parts of the song. The composer and the interpreter is Roger Waters.

♫ It is a protest song who criticizes the rules in the school in the 1950s (in particular in United Kingdom). In fact the rules were very hard, the teachers used severe punishments. For example the students could be excluded, undergo corporal punishments and be blamed.

♫ In 1980 in south Africa, this song was adopted like an Anti-authority hymn by blacks protestants students against the apartheid in the schools (racial separation). By consequence it was officially forbidden by the South African government (2^nd may) for motive of incitement at the violence.


♫ Lyrics  (for listen the Part II, clicks here)

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! Teachers! 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! Teachers! 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.

"Wrong, Do it again!"

"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-sheds, stand still laddie!"

♫ This dissatisfaction shows itself by negative sentences like “ We don’t need no education” or “ No

dark sarcasm in the classroom”, to dispute this rigor.

Then, the sentence “Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!” is a shout of revolt, to arrive at a change of learning conditions at the school.

♪ In the musical movie ♪

♫ A musical movie was specially created for this song.  The director of this movie, Allan Parker, shows the consequences of the education system. That is the alienation, the dehumanization (with masks and the deformation of faces) and the standardization (same clothes for example) of the students at that time. The constant repetition of the gestures of the student translates a monotony, for example the regularity and the synchronization of the steps of the students. The school becomes a butcher's shop, the students are transformed in minced meat.

At the end of the movie, they rebel and break everything in the school.

♪ Official Music Video ♪ 

♫ We find the image of the meat in the official music video. It is the professor, here represented like a monster which acts as butcher. He is transformed in hammer to build a wall around a student. It is then a big army of hammer (= students) that forms and which builds little by little a "school" wall. 

by Appoline and Emeline