As long as the school has a captive audience and ironclad tenure, they're gonna do what they wanna do, no matter what the public wants, no matter what the parents want, no matter what the taxpayers want, and no matter what the employers want.
— Thomas Sowell, WAMU: Inside American Education (Diane Rehm radio) (Rehm) (1993)
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