Inside American Education
Sowell walks through what actually goes on inside American schools and universities, and why the rot was baked in long before anyone would admit it. The 1993 interview that still reads like this morning’s news.
- Interviewer
- Brian Lamb
- Program
- C-SPAN
- Topics
- Education, Ideas
Quotes from this interview
Lines worth carding. Press one to jump the video to that moment.
“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.”
“We live in Western civilization. That's why you ought to study it... To talk about why do we study Western civilization rather than other civilizations, you might as well ask why do we study the Earth instead of other planets and other galaxies.”
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