by Supertramp (1979)
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Supertramp’s “Logical Song” is so well done as to be fairly obvious in its critique of the new era of education that so completely destroyed learning post-WWII. It is easy, however, to not realize just how biting the chorus of the song is, and its words do, in fact, represent the most artful and hard-hitting form of that critique. The lyrics in question:
There are times, when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run too deep for such a simple man.
Won’t you, please, tell me what we’ve learned?
I know it sounds absurd, please, tell me who I am.
This new education, then, which primarily spent its time in destroying the old education, is so hollowing that a forced adherent is left divorced from his very self as well as so empty as to leave that victim with nothing to fill the manufactured void. Our schooling, in short, has become a horror.