JOURNAL 6 (video reflection-I)

"Another Brick in the Wall" is the title of three songs set to variations of the same basic theme, on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera, The Wall, subtitled Part 1 (working title "Reminiscing"), Part 2 (working title "Education"), and Part 3 (working title "Drugs"). This video belongs to the single called as “Part 2” which is a protest song against rigid schooling in general. We can mention the story by dividing into three parts while commenting on the video. Firstly, teacher reprimands the student for writing poems during lesson and humiliates him by reading his poem aloud and mocking at it. It can be deduced from this scene that conventional education system prevents students from being interested in anything except for memorizing course subjects such as poetry, painting art and music. In other words, the video implies that innovative thinking and producing different things are forbidden under the school roof. Secondly, students get in the line, are put in something like an oven and then, they come out as standardized people. In this scene, it is criticized the existing curriculums causing students to standardize and to think in the constant way. Additionally, students are thrown into a huge mincing machine in following scene in order to symbolize that education system stereotypes children and grinds their brains to give the same shape to all. Lastly, students rebel at teacher by chorusing repeat lines “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”, and they begin to devastate school. In the end, we figure out that all these events are imagined by the scolded student from the beginning. In conclusion, even though whole story is made up of just an imagination of a child, references of the video and the lyrics call on us to think about these hard truths.