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by greenlblue 5678 days ago
Who are you quoting? Is it me? If it is how did you infer I propose doing the same thing but with more money? In fact I'm advocating the opposite. Currently the move is towards more and more customized education and it's not working out well at all. The whole thing is so convoluted that whenever a student ends up learning something people have no idea if it was because of their efforts or some other factor so moving towards even more customized education is going to make things worse not better. Also, in the future please refrain from putting words in my mouth if you were indeed quoting me.
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Obviously I wasn't quoting you. Your text was right there and clearly did not include those phrases. Quotes can also be used grammatically to turn a phrase into something that can then be commented on as a phrase, rather than as direct speech of the speaker. This is why the Lisp quote operator is called what it is, for instance, it is doing the same thing.

I may overuse it, but, well, I'm just very comfortable with that usage. Sometimes it's just what is called for.