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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
John Lennon and Paul McCartney went to public schools, during an age when socialism was quite popular in Britain. According to your theory they were unlikely to have written good music due to an inferior education. Brian Wilson also attended public schools. I'm sure that means he wrote crap, too. 
I don't see why this thread has to be ruined with a political discussion. |
OK, strictly speaking politics is off topic. But the subject came up.
And I am serious - I do believe that the deterioration in the schools can explain the deterioration in popular music.
As for John Lennon's, Paul McCartney's and Brian Wilson's education in public schools - my entire point was that the schools (both public and private) are still worse today than they were in the earlier decades.
Those three musical geniuses went to public schools in the 1940s and v1950s. Their minds were certainly not nearly as screwed up by their "education" as the minds of kids who went to school in the 1980s and 1990s. The schools in the entire western world have gone from bad to worse.