In his early 2015 song, popular YouTube music producer Dave Brown, or boyinaband as he is known on the site, created a widely popular rap about the current education system. Brown is largely known for his songwriting and rapping about many social justice topics, such as gay rights and gender, so the song entitled “Don’t Stay in School” fits right into his repertoire. Like most of his other songs, he creates an effective emotional, reasonable appeal as to why the topics currently enforced are not suitable for the world of today, despite the limitations of the media used.
For much of the piece, Brown appeals to the emotions of the audience by use of his own experiences in school. He starts out comparing what he was taught to what he should have been taught, “I wasn’t taught how to get a job; But I can remember dissecting a frog” being the opening line to the song. He lists endless facts he was forced to learn with no real practical use, such as isotopes and the quadratic equation, followed by a largely more extensive list of more practical things that he was never taught, such as practical medicine and taxes. Towards the end of the piece, he goes into dark territory, speaking of how some of these choices in subjects can lead to unnecessary, avoidable deaths, followed by one of the boldest lines of the song, …show more content…
He was able to present his argument against the current educational system of forced learning of impractical subjects successfully. The use of his own experiences, which are not that unlike those of his audience of mostly students, presented a strong emotional appeal that had sound reason behind it. Though his media of choice caused some confusion and caused many to discredit his entire argument, he was able to present a well thought out argument on a well known issue in a way that nearly anybody could
For much of the piece, Brown appeals to the emotions of the audience by use of his own experiences in school. He starts out comparing what he was taught to what he should have been taught, “I wasn’t taught how to get a job; But I can remember dissecting a frog” being the opening line to the song. He lists endless facts he was forced to learn with no real practical use, such as isotopes and the quadratic equation, followed by a largely more extensive list of more practical things that he was never taught, such as practical medicine and taxes. Towards the end of the piece, he goes into dark territory, speaking of how some of these choices in subjects can lead to unnecessary, avoidable deaths, followed by one of the boldest lines of the song, …show more content…
He was able to present his argument against the current educational system of forced learning of impractical subjects successfully. The use of his own experiences, which are not that unlike those of his audience of mostly students, presented a strong emotional appeal that had sound reason behind it. Though his media of choice caused some confusion and caused many to discredit his entire argument, he was able to present a well thought out argument on a well known issue in a way that nearly anybody could