Education Quotes

“Definitions being what they are, young people who waste their time around the house or on street corners are called “unemployed,” while those who waste their time in classrooms are called “students.”
― Thomas Sowell, Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers

“It would be naive to overlook the self-interest behind many of the glowing pleas for “expanded educational opportunity for youth.” Since youth must compete against each other for jobs, more “opportunity” for tax-subsidized education of middle-class students means a continued escalation of degree requirements for jobs and corresponding restriction of opportunity for youths from poorer families.”
― Thomas Sowell, Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers

“large disparities in school performances among racial or ethnic groups (1) are unusual and suspicious, and (2) reflect differences in the way those groups are treated by the schools and/or the society. These”
― Thomas Sowell, Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers