George Carlin said the "reason education sucks" in the United States is due to the "big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. ... They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking." It's a club, Carlin contended, "and you ain't in it."
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