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Sowell and the American Education System • Part I

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Importance of Thinking

The tragedy is that these kids have no conception of thinking. If you think the confusion of Vietnam War with the Korean War is thinking meditating, why is it very nice? Just recently I received a letter from a high school student who wanted my opinion on a wide variety of subjects. This question there was to be sent out to people. And I wrote him back that the opinions of old men like me don't matter. What matters is whether young people like you learn to think, get some knowledge because you're going to be making these decisions long after I'm gone.

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