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I say college education
since the war...
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has become
so a matter of course...
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and such
a fashionable necessity...
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for those either of...
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or aspiring to,
the new vast middle class...
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that we espouse it
as a matter of right...
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and have ceased to ask
what is it good for?
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You see my point?
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What might be some reasons for
the pursuit of higher education?
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One... a love of learning.
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Two... the wish for mastery
of a skill.
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Three...
for economic betterment.
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I'm keeping you.
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One moment.
I have to make a note.
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It's something that I said.
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No. We're buying a house.
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You're buying a new house?
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To go with the tenure.
That's right.
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Nice house.
Close to the private school.
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We were speaking
of economic betterment...
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and I was thinking
of the school tax.
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School tax?
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Where is it written...
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that I have to send my child
to public school?
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Is it a law...
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that I must improve
the city's schools...
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at the expense
of my own interest?
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And is this not simply...
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a case of...
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quote...
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the white man's burden?
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End quotation.
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Good.