20 minutes of oxygen - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

If I had the brains, here's what I'd do

Build a time door and visit my youth

This cigar burn is for effect

In the future you won't forget

When you're trapped in that airtight room

Flick the red switch but not the blue

So, if you remember

If you remember me

That'd be the rip-cord in my destiny

I know how it sounds, trust me on this

Your life to be hangs on this one choice

Keep your Hilti near, you'll know when

Twenty minutes of oxygen

So, if you remember

If you remember me

That could be the rip-cord in my destiny

So, if you remember

If you remember me

That could be the rip-cord in my destiny

If I had the brains, that's what I'd do

Build that time door and poke my head through

It's too late now and I'm still dumb

Twenty minutes of oxygen

No, you won't remember

You won't remember me

There'll be no rip-cord in my destiny

No, you won't remember

You won't remember me

There'll be no rip-cord in my destiny

Quotes on Education

"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent."
-John Dewey

“Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed customs. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.”
-William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.

"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
-William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.

“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.”
-Stuart Chase, The Proper Study of Mankind, 1948.

"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."
-Justice H. Walter Croskey, 2008.

Keane - Atlantic

I hope all my days
Will be lit by your face
I hope all the years
Will hold tight our promises

I don't wanna be old and sleep alone
An empty house is not a home
I don't wanna be old and feel afraid

I don't wanna be old and sleep alone
An empty house is not a home
I don't wanna be old and feel afraid

And if I need anything at all

I need a place
That's hidden in the deep
Where lonely angels sing you to your sleep
Though all the world is broken

I need a place
Where I can make my bed
A lover's lap where I can lay my head
Cos now the room is spinning
The day's beginning

Evening...

Its evening, I'm hungry and its been a long quiet and completely uneventful day so far. In large part thats a welcome thing, as I've been moving new furniture in most of the week. I'm tired of moving. Its to hot to move all this crap around...

So I'm sitting her in the dark on the new couch blabbing away about nothing. I don't know why I'm even bothering.

Quotes for today

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
- Sidney J. Harris

Quotes for the evening

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

- Andre Malraux

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham