Education is no laughing matter, but that won’t keep me from cracking a few jokes. School can be a lot of things. It can be challenging, it can be boring and sometimes it can even be downright unpleasant, but there’s no reason it can’t be equally enjoyable. Comedy, though often dismissed as mere entertainment, can be much more. Humour can serve as social critique, laughter can represent resistance, and both can cultivate catharsis in troubled times. From Ancient Greek cynics to medieval jesters and Elizabethan playwrights, to stand-up comedians and late-night talk-show hosts, comedy can confound power and insist on the irreducibility of humanity. My Keystone project, a creative composition / comedic performance, outlines societal discontents with education as both a subjective process of growth and a social institution and offers a reframing of the roles that learning and teaching play in an advancing world.