“By the late eighteenth century, the lowlands of Scotland had developed the most extensive system of education in” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“To the Ibos, Western education was a rare opportunity to be seized.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The need for Nigerian clerks and other subordinates to help man the colonial administration required creating a new class of African people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The availability of federal grants and loans to help students meet rising tuition costs virtually ensures that those costs will rise. A… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“That educators who have repeatedly failed to do what they are hired to do, and trained to do, should take on sweeping… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Top colleges turn out extraordinary graduates because they take in extraordinary freshmen. That tells very little about what happened in the intervening… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Outside the world of education, few would be confident, or even comfortable, claiming that it is a lack of self-esteem which leads… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Like mismatched minority students, mismatched minority faculty have sought refuge in non-intellectual pursuits, such as community activities and campus political activism, in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It would be impossible to understand the persistence and vehemence of these arguments against test scores without understanding the political purpose they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Whether blatant or subtle, brainwashing has become a major, time-consuming activity in American education at all levels. Some zealots have not hesitated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The futility of attempting to upgrade the teaching profession by paying higher salaries is obvious, so long as legal barriers keep out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In other words, it is the amount of money that colleges and universities can get—from tuition, endowment income, donations, etc.—which determines how… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
