Boyinaband - Don't Stay in School
[00:20.01] I wasn’t taught how to get a job
[00:22.18] But I can remember dissecting a frog
[00:24.88] I wasn’t taught how to pay tax
[00:27.66] But I know loads about Shakespeare's classics
[00:30.37] I was never taught how to vote
[00:31.87] They devoted that time to defining isotopes
[00:34.88] So wasn’t taught how to look after my health?
[00:37.38] But mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
[00:40.13] Never spent a lesson on current events
[00:42.37] Instead I studied The Old American West
[00:44.73] I was never taught what laws there are
[00:47.68] I was never taught what laws there are
[00:50.43] Let me repeat - I was not taught the laws for the country I live in
[00:53.42] But I know how Henry the VIII killed his women
[00:55.43] Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived
[00:58.04] Glad that’s in my head instead of financial advice
[01:00.04] I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light
[01:03.04] But I was never taught my human rights
[01:05.34] Apparently there’s thirty, do you know them? I don’t
[01:07.56] Why the hell can’t we both recite them by rote?!
[01:10.60] I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks
[01:13.03] Yet I don’t know squat about trading stocks
[01:15.61] Or how money works at all - where does it come from?
[01:17.83] How does the thing that motivates the world function?
[01:20.62] Not taught how to budget and disperse my earnings
[01:22.10] I was too busy rehearsing cursive
[01:25.61] Didn’t learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is
[01:28.86] But I spent days on what the quadratic equation is:
[01:30.95] Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared
[01:32.69] Minus 4ac over 2a
[01:35.90] That’s insane, that’s absolutely insane
[01:38.14] They made me learn that over basic first aid
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[01:40.94] Or how to recognise the most deadly mental disorders
[01:43.19] Or diseases with preventable causes
[01:45.15] How to buy a house with a mortgage
[01:47.21] If I could afford it ‘cause abstract maths was deemed more important
[01:50.99] Than advice that would literally save thousands of lives
[01:55.18] But it’s cool, ‘cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime
[02:01.24] Never taught present day practical medicines
[02:03.46] But I was told what the ancient Hippocratic method is
[02:06.20] “I’ve got a headache, the pain is ceaseless
[02:08.21] What should I take?”
[02:09.39] Umm... maybe try some leeches?
[02:11.14] “Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts
[02:13.64] Or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?”
[02:15.91] Ummm... no but learn mental maths
[02:18.41] Because “you won’t have a calculator with you every day!”
[02:20.89] They say it’s not the kids, the parents are the problem
[02:23.39] Then if you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then!
[02:26.42] All this advice about using a condom
[02:28.78] But none for when you actually have a kid when you want one
[02:31.54] I’m only fluent in this language, for serious?
[02:34.03] The rest of the world speaks two, do you think I’m an idiot?
[02:36.54] They chose the solar over the political system
[02:38.63] So like a typical citizen now I don’t know what I’m voting on
[02:41.64] Which policies exist, or how to make them change
[02:44.12] Mais oui, je parle un peu de Francais
[02:46.70] So at 18, I was expected to elect a representative
[02:49.18] For a system I had never ever ever ever been presented with
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[02:52.29] But I won’t take it
[02:53.79] I’ll tell everyone my childhood was wasted
[02:56.29] I’ll share it everywhere how I was “educated”
[02:58.92] And insist these pointless things
[03:00.92] Don't stay in school
