Do you suppose Van Zandt knows he's being self-defeating?

Steve Van Zandt is putting together a curriculum for teaching the history of rock and roll in schools, as part of his rock and roll forever foundation.

Apparently, Van Zandt believes that teaching the importance of rock to kids will inspire them, and not turn an already flailing cultural form into something about as exciting as Martello Towers and pre-decimal coinage.

Van Zandt might be having some trouble putting together his course. He's clearly having difficulty putting together a sentence or two about it:

"The history of rock and roll is a history of, certainly, 20th-century America, from there on, anyway. All the cultural impact that it had with civil rights and women's rights and all that other stuff. Well, this is what's going to last. This is what's going to, you know, be here long after we're gone,"

We're reeling slightly from the idea that there might be an essay set on Motley Crue's contribution to the women's movement, but can't wait to find out the role that rock played in "all that other stuff" that defined the last century.