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Richard Sander about Sowell and Racial Preferences in Admissions
The Genius of Thomas Sowell
The Problem With American Education
There's a problem with American education. There's too much of it. People in 1940, the average American had an eighth grade education. So when people think of the America's glorious 1950 moment, that was built by eighth graders. And now we encourage everybody to stay in school to 28th grade to do transgender and colonialism studies at a cost of a quarter million bucks. It's completely worthless. What this does is encourage absolutely the worst and most unnecessary element of the American education system. As you say, it's a wealth transfer to the poor, to people considerably richer than them. In that sense, it's the perfect Democrat policy. That's going to be my new homeschool
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