"Let us all with drills and homework / Manufacture human minds."
— Anonymous [Free Speech Movement]
Work Title
Date
1964
Metaphor
"Let us all with drills and homework / Manufacture human minds."
Metaphor in Context
[To the tune of "Ode to Joy"]
From the tip of San Diego
To the top of Berkeley’s hills
We have built a mighty factory
to impart our social skills
Social engineering triumphed,
Managers of every kind
Let us all with drills and homework
Manufacture human minds
Make the students safe for knowledge,
Keep them loyal,
Keep them clean,
That is why why have a college,
Hail to IBM machine! (225)
From the tip of San Diego
To the top of Berkeley’s hills
We have built a mighty factory
to impart our social skills
Social engineering triumphed,
Managers of every kind
Let us all with drills and homework
Manufacture human minds
Make the students safe for knowledge,
Keep them loyal,
Keep them clean,
That is why why have a college,
Hail to IBM machine! (225)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Mario Savio, Speech to California Federation of Teachers Convention [December 29, 1964], in Robert May Cohen, ed., The Essential Mario Savio. Speeches and Writings That Changed America. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014), 225.
Date of Entry
05/25/2021
