"Proper Education" is a remix

Remix

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 by the Swedish

Sweden

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 DJ and producer

Record producer

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 Eric Prydz

Eric Prydz

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. The original song by Pink Floyd

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, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

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", was remixed to create this song; it has a much more emphasized 4/4 beat than the original song. It made it to number two in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 and reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay

Hot Dance Airplay

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 chart in the United States

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 in 2007, making it the first remixed recording of an original song to reach the top spot on this chart. On December 8, 2007, the song also received a nomination for best remixed recording

50th Grammy Awards

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 at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Music video

The music video for this song includes teenagers escaping school while doing parkour

Parkour

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 stunts and other various actions, like jumping from building to building. They then sneak into a number of apartments and perform energy efficient tasks, such as replacing lightbulbs with their energy efficient equivalent, turning down thermostats, turning off televisions, putting bricks in toilets (to save water) etc. Finally, they tap into the apartment complex's power grid and power down the whole building, before re-lighting some of the apartments so that the words "SWITCH OFF" appear in lights on the side of the building. The video ends with the words "you don't need an education to save the planet".

Track listings

CD single

1. "Proper Education" (Radio Edit) — 3:22
2. "Proper Education" (Club Mix) — 6:08

CD maxi

1. "Proper Education" (Radio Edit) — 3:20
2. "Proper Education" (Original Version) — 6:08
3. "Proper Education" (Sébastien Léger
   Sébastien Léger
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    Remix) — 9:03
4. "Proper Education" (Sebastian Ingrosso
   Sebastian Ingrosso
   Sebastian Ingrosso is a Swedish DJ and producer of Italian descent. Born in Grahamstown, South Africa but raised in Solna, Sweden. Sebastian spent his teenage years in his fathers studio learning how to make music, with his first official remix released on Mega Records in 1999...
   
    Remix) — 8:57
5. "Proper Education" (Video)

12" maxi

1. "Proper Education" (Club Mix) — 6:09 — 8:57
2. "Proper Education" (Dub Mix) — 8:38

Certifications

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified
Denmark	Gold	November 27, 2007	4,000

Charts

Chart (2006/07)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	20
Austrian Singles Chart	20
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart	2
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart	12
Danish Singles Chart	3
Dutch Singles Chart	3
Finnish Singles Chart	1
French SNEP Singles Chart	10
German Singles Chart	4
Irish Singles Chart	9
Italian Singles Chart	11
Spanish Singles Chart	4
Swedish Singles Chart	7
Swiss Singles Chart	12
UK Singles Chart	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	29

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)	Rank
German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	51
Swedish Singles Chart	68