50 Best Rock Songs About Education
Best Rock Tracks on School and Learning
There’s a certain kind of tension when music brushes against the idea of school. Some tracks laugh at the grind, others lean into the frustration, and a few take that old classroom feeling and turn it into something bigger. Not every song literally spells out a lecture hall or a chalkboard, but they still carry the spirit of sitting through lessons, chasing grades, or flat-out rebelling against all of it. In the same way that pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can spin ordinary moments into anthems, these tracks pull from the strange push and pull of education and what it leaves behind.
You can hear it in riffs that sound like detention scribbles, in lyrics that feel like passing notes back and forth when you’re supposed to be paying attention. Sometimes it’s celebration, other times it’s straight-up burnout. The guitars slam down like doors closing at the end of the last period of the day, or the vocals stretch out like someone daydreaming through a lecture that never ends. Education, or at least the idea of it, becomes less about neat lessons and more about the raw mess of trying to figure out who you are when the bell rings.
There’s no tidy syllabus here, only songs that lean into the nerves, the humor, or the rebellion that classrooms stir up. Some of them nod to actual school days while others simply carry the restless spirit that comes with them. Here are the best rock songs on education that fit the playlist.
Top 10 School Life Rock Songs
1. 'School's Out' by Alice Cooper
2. 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2' by Pink Floyd
3. 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' by Ramones
4. 'Hot for Teacher' by Van Halen
5. 'My Old School' by Steely Dan
6. 'Smokin' in the Boys Room' by Brownsville Station
7. 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' by The Police
8. 'School Days' by Chuck Berry
9. 'We're Going to Be Friends' by The White Stripes
10. 'I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats
More Education Rock Songs #11 to 20
11. 'High School' by MC5
12. 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam
13. 'Getting Better' by The Beatles
14. 'Teacher, Teacher' by Rockpile
15. 'Graduate' by Third Eye Blind
16. 'The Logical Song' by Supertramp
17. 'High School Confidential' by Jerry Lee Lewis
18. 'Schooldays' by The Kinks
19. 'Going Away to College' by Blink-182
20. 'Be Chrool to Your Scuel' by Twisted Sister
Education and Learning Themed Rock #21 to 30
21. 'School' by Nirvana
22. 'High School Never Ends' by Bowling for Soup
23. 'Teacher' by Jethro Tull
24. 'Educated Fool' by Hoobastank
25. 'Back to School Again' by The Four Tops
26. 'Bitch School' by Spinal Tap
27. 'Headmaster' by Golden Earring
28. 'Schoolin'' by The Ramrods
29. 'High School USA' by Dickie Goodman
30. 'The Great American Success Story' by Alice Cooper
Rock Music About Academic Life #31 to 40
31. 'The Last Assembly' by The Fray
32. 'Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus
33. 'We Rule the School' by The Adolescents
34. 'The Hard Way' by The Kinks
35. 'Waitin' in School' by Ricky Nelson
36. 'Re-education (Through Labor)' by Rise Against
37. 'New Kid in School' by The Donnas
38. 'Graduation Day' by The Four Freshmen
39. 'Just Sixteen' by Velvet Revolver
40. 'Learning to Fly' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
School Themed Rock Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Teach Your Children' by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
42. 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' by The Yardbirds
43. 'Back to Schooldays' by Graham Parker
44. 'Still in School' by The Vandals
45. 'I'm a Little Bit Country' by The White Stripes
46. 'School's In' by Gary U.S. Bonds
47. 'School Boy Crush' by The Average White Band
48. 'College Man' by Bill Justis
49. 'Get Out of My School' by Chuck Berry
50. 'I'm Not Signifying' by The Rolling Stones
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