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Do you know somebody called Gil Scott Heron ?
Yeah ! Yeah !
Well he was a political figure and singer
During the seventies in the united states
He used to talk about social classes
And segregation as a black man living the revolution
He used music as a vector for activism
So here's an ode to him

You know, the first thing I want to say is
One of the roles of school today
Is to teach students
Conformity to law
And respect for authority
The core values in education reflect on the economical
And political systems
It renews the social order
It keeps it in the good way we want it to maintain the balance
Of capitalism and power relationships
You know
We legitimate the scholar ranking of individuals
With a meritocratic point of view
By hiding the fact that talent
And will to perform
Is influenced by social class
The question is
Do you teach the children to think by themselves and evolve
Or do you make them repeat again and again
The divine rules you made up to keep us in boxes ?
Do you understand that the social class they come from
Make their relationship to education different ?
Why don't you stop the segmentation, tell me ?
Huh ?
Are you afraid ?
Go f*ck yourself

Now
Why are there almost only white people at university, tell me ?
Is it because the school system
Is still somehow made for higher class students
Why do we keep separating the children
By their capacity to integrate to a privileged system
And so limit the opportunities of the lower class ones ?
I think
That for working-class students
Striving to succeed and absorbing
The school's high class values
Is accepting their inferior social position 
Now
If you don't see the changes we need to make
If we want to survive the climate
Economical and political crises
We only have one thing to tell you, right ?
So listen up
Go f*ck yourself
All right, I'll just say it one more time
So you really do understand what I mean
Go f*ck yourself
 
We want to create an education
A fertile soil for reflection
No more discrimination
A kid's revolution
We want to create an education
A fertile soil for reflection
No more discrimination
A kid's revolution
We want to create an education
A fertile soil for reflection
No more discrimination
A kid's revolution

What we would like to see now
Is a school in which we teach the kids to learn
To create
To imagine new systems
New ways of working together
What we want
Is to make a revolution
As children do

We're going to raise it
With love
With fire
With joy
We're going to raise it
We're going to raise it
We're going to raise it
We're going to raise
Stop stop stop stop 

Stop, stop the social ranking
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the racial classes
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the privileges
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the ignorance
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the social ranking
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the racial classes
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the privileges
Stop, stop
Stop, stop the ignorance
Stop, stop

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