My junior high shop class was in 1980. Both teachers were missing fingers, although I don’t think they lost them in the junior high shop.
Incidentally, this was when Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” was playing regularly on the radio. The other kids in shop class achieved the rapture whenever it came on, singing along especially loudly to the “we don’t need no education” line. I’m not sure Roger Waters ever really grasped why The Wall was so successful in the US.
Yeah, that’s a song I both love and hate. Love it because it was obvious he wasn’t really talking about education but “education” aka “thought control” as he specifies in the song itself. Hate it because I’m sure it contributed to the anti-intellectualism we see today because so many people thought he meant like math class instead of the propaganda kids in schools were fed like “it’s good to sign up for the military to fight in some foreign war”. Which applied specifically in the case of the character the wall was about because he was constantly told at school that the father that abandoned him was a hero for it and he was bad for not being happy about it, which just became another brick in the wall.
My junior high shop class was in 1980. Both teachers were missing fingers, although I don’t think they lost them in the junior high shop.
Incidentally, this was when Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” was playing regularly on the radio. The other kids in shop class achieved the rapture whenever it came on, singing along especially loudly to the “we don’t need no education” line. I’m not sure Roger Waters ever really grasped why The Wall was so successful in the US.
Yeah, that’s a song I both love and hate. Love it because it was obvious he wasn’t really talking about education but “education” aka “thought control” as he specifies in the song itself. Hate it because I’m sure it contributed to the anti-intellectualism we see today because so many people thought he meant like math class instead of the propaganda kids in schools were fed like “it’s good to sign up for the military to fight in some foreign war”. Which applied specifically in the case of the character the wall was about because he was constantly told at school that the father that abandoned him was a hero for it and he was bad for not being happy about it, which just became another brick in the wall.