Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

In this provocation, Zappa attacks what he saw as the conformist, credential-driven culture of American schooling and its surrounding rituals (proms, pep rallies). The “mediocre educational system” is framed as intellectually corrosive—something that can dull curiosity rather than sharpen it. His alternative is self-directed learning (“go to the library and educate yourself”), which he treats as an act of courage and independence. The jab at “plastic robots who tell you what to read” extends the critique to standardized curricula and authority figures who prescribe taste and thought, urging listeners to resist passive consumption and cultivate critical, self-chosen knowledge.