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Fran Lebowitz | Club Random with Bill Maher

Club Random with Bill Maher

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The Education System Is Not the Same as It Used to Be

When he was a child, which was before you were one, no one ever asked a child a question. In my house, and almost all houses, it was non-stop instructions. My mother was constantly correcting my grammar, non-stop. To the point at which I do this in my head, my mother is dead. So that is because... At a certain point, you know, the education system is exactly... The only way to learn grammar is by memorizing millions of rules. It's just about these rules which are actually totally arbitrary. And that is why people make these mistakes.

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