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Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of

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Will Rogers is using sarcasm to criticize the idea of restricting education by comparing it to the failure of Prohibition, which banned alcohol but didn't stop people from drinking. He implies that banning learning would be just as ineffective and absurd, suggesting that promoting education is a better approach than trying to forbid it.

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