Rounding out our mini-tribute to back-to-school season this week, we have everybody’s favorite “school sucks” song, the iconic “Another Brick in the Wall” by Pink Floyd. The song in and of itself is a stinging indictment against indoctrination and rigid schooling. Still, the unsettling and foreboding video of children marching in unison through a meat grinder, becoming deformed clones, before rioting and burning down a school, really does a compelling job of driving that point home. In any event, it’s a fitting way to close out our back-to-school theme, and any excuse to “study” some classic Pink Floyd and rediscover this iconic video is a good one in our book. Dig it:
