Friday, January 01, 2010

From the archives - Telling point about government schools by Thomas Sowell

Several years back Joanne Jacobs referenced a column by Thomas Sowell. Here was the interesting quote in Dr. Sowell's column:

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A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like "arraigned," "curried" and "exculpate" meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.
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It is sad. Because of the poor education many Americans are getting today they are in ways slaves to ignorance.

The version of the column Joanne linked to is no longer up, but I found it here.


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1 comment:

Malcolm Kirkpatrick said...

Aloha, Henry Cate.

In the same Sowell essay: "People sometimes ask if I have tried to convince black "leaders" to take a different view on racial issues. Of course not. I wouldn't spend my time trying to persuade the mafia to give up crime. Why should I spend time trying to convince race hustlers to give up victimhood? It's their bread and butter."

I have come (reluctantly) to a similar view of school choice advocacy with legislators.