Boyinaband - Dont Stay in School
[00:09.67] I wasn’t taught how to get a job
[00:11.84] But I can remember dissecting a frog
[00:14.54] I wasn’t taught how to pay tax
[00:17.32] But I know loads about Shakespeare's classics
[00:20.03] I was never taught how to vote
[00:21.53] They devoted that time to defining isotopes
[00:24.54] So wasn’t taught how to look after my health?
[00:27.04] But mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
[00:29.79] Never spent a lesson on current events
[00:32.03] Instead I studied The Old American West
[00:34.39] I was never taught what laws there are
[00:37.34] I was never taught what laws there are
[00:40.09] Let me repeat - I was not taught the laws for the country I live in
[00:43.08] But I know how Henry the VIII killed his women
[00:45.09] Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived
[00:47.70] Glad that’s in my head instead of financial advice
[00:49.70] I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light
[00:52.70] But I was never taught my human rights
[00:55.00] Apparently there’s thirty, do you know them? I don’t
[00:57.22] Why the hell can’t we both recite them by rote?!
[01:00.26] I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks
[01:02.69] Yet I don’t know squat about trading stocks
[01:05.27] Or how money works at all - where does it come from?
[01:07.49] How does the thing that motivates the world function?
[01:10.28] Not taught how to budget and disperse my earnings
[01:11.76] I was too busy rehearsing cursive
[01:15.27] Didn’t learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is
[01:18.52] But I spent days on what the quadratic equation is:
[01:20.61] Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared
[01:22.35] Minus 4ac over 2a
[01:25.56] That’s insane, that’s absolutely insane
[01:27.80] They made me learn that over basic first aid
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[01:30.60] Or how to recognise the most deadly mental disorders
[01:32.85] Or diseases with preventable causes
[01:34.81] How to buy a house with a mortgage
[01:36.87] If I could afford it ‘cause abstract maths was deemed more important
[01:40.65] Than advice that would literally save thousands of lives
[01:44.84] But it’s cool, ‘cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime
[01:50.90] Never taught present day practical medicines
[01:53.12] But I was told what the ancient Hippocratic method is
[01:55.86] “I’ve got a headache, the pain is ceaseless
[01:57.87] What should I take?”
[01:59.05] Umm... maybe try some leeches?
[02:00.80] “Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts
[02:03.30] Or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?”
[02:05.57] Ummm... no but learn mental maths
[02:08.07] Because “you won’t have a calculator with you every day!”
[02:10.55] They say it’s not the kids, the parents are the problem
[02:13.05] Then if you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then!
[02:16.08] All this advice about using a condom
[02:18.44] But none for when you actually have a kid when you want one
[02:21.20] I’m only fluent in this language, for serious?
[02:23.69] The rest of the world speaks two, do you think I’m an idiot?
[02:26.20] They chose the solar over the political system
[02:28.29] So like a typical citizen now I don’t know what I’m voting on
[02:31.30] Which policies exist, or how to make them change
[02:33.78] Mais oui, je parle un peu de Francais
[02:36.36] So at 18, I was expected to elect a representative
[02:38.84] For a system I had never ever ever ever been presented with
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[02:41.95] But I won’t take it
[02:43.45] I’ll tell everyone my childhood was wasted
[02:45.95] I’ll share it everywhere how I was “educated”
[02:48.58] And insist these pointless things
[02:50.58] Don't stay in school
