3. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 by Pink Floyd
Is Pink Floyd critiquing government-run schooling? This second part of the three-part song was released in November 1979, (coincidentally? uncoincidentally?) a month after the creation of the US Department of Education. In many ways, the song is prognosticating what would become the future of American schooling, where children are taught to be obedient rather than creative.
Best libertarian lyric: “We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone.”
