“Who Needs Math?” John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Back-to-School Primer for Kids

John Oliver offers a subject-by-subject breakdown of what this coming school year might look like for a bunch of kids in traditional Last Week Tonight fashion … which is to say: hilarious and full of sarcasm.

Oliver is probably the best living Cliff Notes resource ever, dispensing stunning gems like, “You’ll learn that Africa and Asia are places … but that’s about it,” and, “The most lasting lesson [about dissecting frogs] will be what frog embalming fluid smells like.” Ahh, memories.

But perhaps the best part of the segment is John Oliver’s section on “Who Dies At The End” for English classes. No “Snape kills Dumbledore” shenanigans here—we’re talking classic literature, people. We’re talking about the books that you read then promptly forgot about after the test.

Spoiler: all the books are about the American Dream, and the American Dream always dies at the end.

(via The Daily Dot)

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