The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
THOMAS SOWELLSuppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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