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All and All, You're Just Another Brick in the Wall

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As a child of the 80s, my music tastes are pretty old school, as my students would say. Of course, in being old school means I listen to the Floyd. So here I was marking mock exam papers and on my playlist comes 'The Wall', a Pink Floyd classic. Whose chorus is: We don't need no education We dont 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 dont 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. In an attempt to procrastinate from further marking, this got me thinking. Is school a factory. controlling the thoughts of our learners? A