Boyinaband - Don-'t Stay in School
[00:19.67] I wasn’t taught how to get a job
[00:21.84] But I can remember dissecting a frog
[00:24.54] I wasn’t taught how to pay tax
[00:27.32] But I know loads about Shakespeare's classics
[00:30.03] I was never taught how to vote
[00:31.53] They devoted that time to defining isotopes
[00:34.54] So wasn’t taught how to look after my health?
[00:37.04] But mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
[00:39.79] Never spent a lesson on current events
[00:42.03] Instead I studied The Old American West
[00:44.39] I was never taught what laws there are
[00:47.34] I was never taught what laws there are
[00:50.09] Let me repeat - I was not taught the laws for the country I live in
[00:53.08] But I know how Henry the VIII killed his women
[00:55.09] Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived
[00:57.70] Glad that’s in my head instead of financial advice
[00:59.70] I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light
[01:02.70] But I was never taught my human rights
[01:05.00] Apparently there’s thirty, do you know them? I don’t
[01:07.22] Why the hell can’t we both recite them by rote?!
[01:10.26] I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks
[01:12.69] Yet I don’t know squat about trading stocks
[01:15.27] Or how money works at all - where does it come from?
[01:17.49] How does the thing that motivates the world function?
[01:20.28] Not taught how to budget and disperse my earnings
[01:21.76] I was too busy rehearsing cursive
[01:25.27] Didn’t learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is
[01:28.52] But I spent days on what the quadratic equation is:
[01:30.61] Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared
[01:32.35] Minus 4ac over 2a
[01:35.56] That’s insane, that’s absolutely insane
[01:37.80] They made me learn that over basic first aid
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[01:40.60] Or how to recognise the most deadly mental disorders
[01:42.85] Or diseases with preventable causes
[01:44.81] How to buy a house with a mortgage
[01:46.87] If I could afford it ‘cause abstract maths was deemed more important
[01:50.65] Than advice that would literally save thousands of lives
[01:54.84] But it’s cool, ‘cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime
[02:00.90] Never taught present day practical medicines
[02:03.12] But I was told what the ancient Hippocratic method is
[02:05.86] “I’ve got a headache, the pain is ceaseless
[02:07.87] What should I take?”
[02:09.05] Umm... maybe try some leeches?
[02:10.80] “Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts
[02:13.30] Or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?”
[02:15.57] Ummm... no but learn mental maths
[02:18.07] Because “you won’t have a calculator with you every day!”
[02:20.55] They say it’s not the kids, the parents are the problem
[02:23.05] Then if you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then!
[02:26.08] All this advice about using a condom
[02:28.44] But none for when you actually have a kid when you want one
[02:31.20] I’m only fluent in this language, for serious?
[02:33.69] The rest of the world speaks two, do you think I’m an idiot?
[02:36.20] They chose the solar over the political system
[02:38.29] So like a typical citizen now I don’t know what I’m voting on
[02:41.30] Which policies exist, or how to make them change
[02:43.78] Mais oui, je parle un peu de Francais
[02:46.36] So at 18, I was expected to elect a representative
[02:48.84] For a system I had never ever ever ever been presented with
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[02:51.95] But I won’t take it
[02:53.45] I’ll tell everyone my childhood was wasted
[02:55.95] I’ll share it everywhere how I was “educated”
[02:58.58] And insist these pointless things
[03:00.58] Don't stay in school
