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Ramona Bessinger on Sowell's "Inside American Education" • Part 2

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Macguffie's Readers

The Macguffie's readers are books that were published I think in the 1830s, and we're popular until the 1920s. They sold about 122 million copies of these books that's second only to the Bible. And they were just very high level books about poetry, literature,. storytelling, no math or science but it was all about reading and writing. You could purchase the entire series of seven books for seven dollars on Amazon Kindle, if you're interested so I'll send you a link to that later on but. So soul talks about how the tactics that the education establishment uses when they're accused of managing the decline of American education. He talks about, you know, great inflation

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