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Schools Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could…
- Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from…
- Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of…
- Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
- Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
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- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
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