B
Right.
A
The idea was that everybody should have an education so that they would be a better voter and you couldn't pull the wool over their eyes.
B
Right. It has taken on a more profound, and you'd think we'd notice it, economic uh, thrust. Yeah.
A
Well, that's exactly what I was going to say. Now there seem to be really three reasons for education. One is education for civic duty. One is education for economic reasons. And one is education for civilization. I mean and I think that one,
B
Well I'm glad that you added that one. Yeah, I think that one's significant.
A
That's what I used to think education was all about when I was a college professor and then I quit and got disabused of that notion. But, uh, the, uh, uh, now the only thing people seem to agree on is that education is, uh, an economic enterprise to train people for jobs. And, uh, I'm not sure that people in the education establishment really know what their purpose is. And I'm really sad to say this, I never thought I would have but I really think that, uh, the educational establishment has become part of the problem. And, uh, that's why I guess I'm sort of, reluctantly, uh, in favor of these, uh, choice programs.