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Sowell and the American Education System • Part I

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Importance of Sorting People

Will: This clip touches lightly on a number of important subjects, which I wish so will had more time to delve deeper into. One subject he mentions is that whole generations of both blacks and immigrant kids had decent educations without their parents becoming involved in the school. With absolutely no parental involvement, we were able to get high scores on the SATs, as well as on the various regents,. Sol himself was one of those problem students who had to be sorted out and was sent to a non-academic vocational school. He says affective education is leading to a degeneration of morals in society.

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