Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.
Thomas Sowell...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
Thomas SowellThe desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
Thomas SowellIf you believe in equal rights, then what do โwomenโs rights,โ โgay rights,โ etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
Thomas SowellThe greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.
Thomas Sowell