Education Quote by Kanye West

Kanye builds a sermon out of defensiveness, punchlines, and pop-culture shorthand, which is basically his native language. He starts by swatting away two predictable objections: the petty (arguing over "facial features", a nod to the shallow debates around depictions of Jesus and the way Black faith gets policed by aesthetics) and the ideological (he is not auditioning as an apologist tasked with debating atheists into submission). That opening is strategic humility: he narrows the scope so he can widen the appeal.

Then he lands the real move: analogy as street-level theology. "The way school need teachers" is commonsense dependence; nobody argues with it because the alternative is chaos. Pairing it with "the way Kathie Lee needed Regis" is a sly cultural time capsule - daytime TV as a symbol of chemistry, structure, and the idea that a partnership can become a institution. Kanye picks a reference that is almost aggressively un-sacred, daring you to accept that spiritual need can be communicated in the language of the ordinary and even corny.

Subtext: he is reframing Jesus not as a doctrine but as infrastructure. You don't "agree" with infrastructure; you rely on it when life gets unstable. The swaggering "yall need" is both invitation and provocation, a rapper's version of the altar call: less concerned with winning an argument than with insisting the room share his urgency. Contextually, it fits Kanye's public conversion era, where he performs faith as spectacle and sincerity at once - not because he can't separate them, but because for him the performance is the point.