Billy Joel, history teacher…
via Joanne Jacobs.
Most of the 11th grade U.S. history grade for the semester will be determined by the final project: A group presentation on the significance of the lyrics of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire, which lists events and people from 1949-89. It starts with Harry Truman and Doris Day, goes on to “birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again” and ends on “rock and roller cola wars.”

Maybe I have things bassakwards here, but I thought the purpose of education was to prepare you to understand things. Deep things . Like We Didn’t Start the Fire. And Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me). Deep.