School children in several countries are being organized to skip in-class indoctrination about global warming this Friday to attend out-of-class indoctrination about global warming.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the “climate strike” on Twitter, writing: “We have ten years to save the planet. TEN YEARS.”

And just like that, the “You are all individuals” scene from Life of Brian was reclassified as a documentary.

Among the numerous things students won’t learn that day — except in the school of experience:

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer