Joel

To add on to my previous thought the part about the teacher shows a lack of interest in history playing into the idea those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it and these students don’t care, don’t learn, and repeat the cycle.

I always interpreted it as a metaphor on the repetition of history with the kids these days verse illustrating how the old always look down on the youth. Furthermore the line “another war to end all wars, depressions are no more” shows how these large wars keep starting again and again that are supposed to end all of them and how this depression should be the last but it repeats. Of course this is all symbolized in the wheel that spins round and round repeating the cycle and each time they “reinvent the wheel” meaning they do the same cycle in a different way in a different time. That’s my interpertaion at least