Time for School

My co-worker, John, mentioned an author to me and, of course, my wife says, "Yeah, we have that book. That's why we homeschool." So I started reading it yesterday in the carpool. Here's a quote I like from the Introduction by David Alpert.

While there is always a need for a highly circumscribed number of technocrats to replace themselves, the Combine has only limited use for hundreds of millions of self-reliant, critically thinking individuals who engage in conversation and who determine their own needs as individuals and communities free of the Combine's enticements and commands.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, John Taylor Gatto

Yup. Gotta have your Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. Never mind me. Have a soma.

A picture is worth a thousand words

However, sometimes attempting to use even one word, let alone a thousand, would ruin the picture. There are times when explaining a joke just makes it not funny. This video is like that. If you don't get it, explaining it takes something away from it. Here's hoping it gets you.

Nickelback "Savin' Me"

Bingo

From time to time there are songs that paint a picture of what's inside. Here's one that's hitting the mark for me:

Rush of Fools "Undo"