Thomas Sowell on the Failures in American Education. FULL UNCUT INTERVIEW

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@Jack3dBrett 2 жыл бұрын

I love it when Tom gets a question or hears a statement and immediately cracks up over how silly of a question/statement it is

@MrGarysugarman 2 жыл бұрын

I loved when he did that in a Congressional hearing after Biden asked him stupid questions.

@ContextReallyMatters 8 ай бұрын

I cracked up when he responded to the lady with, "Well, Ialso have a high opinion of myself... "

@elijahsammy4393 10 ай бұрын

I am a nurse from the Philippines and living in the UK. Have followed Mr. Sowell back home until now. It's been 13 years and I just couldn't get enough of him... Pure wisdom 👌💖

@heldenkatze 8 ай бұрын

same minus the nurse and the UK part.

@arjunratnadev 5 ай бұрын

I'm buying all his books one by one, I love economics so I value good education

@burleybater 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing isn't it? This Q&A is 28 years old, and sounds very much like it was recorded yesterday. But how many of us can honestly say that we saw this coming 28 years ago?

@jeronimotamayolopera4834 Жыл бұрын

LOVE VIOLENCE. DEATH TO THE MASSES.

@usx06240 Жыл бұрын

Now you know why Sowell is a pessimist.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

Capitalist society is based upon making profits so education becomes nothing but an overhead cost to be minimized and monopolized by the ruling class. The dominate ideas of any society are those of the ruling class and in the United States that is the rich capitalist who can buy all the education they need while they invest in new machinery to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and cheaper unskilled labor.

@paulswehrly954 Жыл бұрын

28 years. AMEN very current 1n 2023!

@masada2828 Жыл бұрын

@@paulswehrly954 - yes it is because, nothing has changed, it’s only got worse.

@rochellecaffee1417 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, SOOOOOO MUCH, DR. SOWELL!! You are absolutely right on!!!! God bless your devotion to our American children’s education!!!!

@adamjeffs5930 2 жыл бұрын

Look at that. A Thomas Sowell interview I haven’t seen yet. Fantastic! Greetings from the UK! 🇬🇧

@billoy1979 2 жыл бұрын

My goodness this could easily pass for an interview that has been conducted yesterday. It is as relevant then As it is relevant now.

@olubola9274 2 жыл бұрын

Even more relevant now.

@thejunkmanlives 2 жыл бұрын

i get that a lot with dr sowell. its a crime that so few americans know who he is.

@jeronimotamayolopera4834 Жыл бұрын

LOVE VIOLENCE. DEATH TO THE MASSES.

@reven-docta79 Жыл бұрын

@@thejunkmanlives Trust me, the engine ears intentionally soup res Dr. Sowell Shelby Steel, Walter Williams, George Schuyler and so many others. They have not use for anything other than the Cornell West type.

@Delta51000 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Sowell = intellectual force. 🇺🇸

@williammunny9916 2 жыл бұрын

*_John 3.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”_* _Jesus Christ loves you. Only Jesus Christ saves. Repent and be saved. God bless you, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family._

@theinnerlight8016 2 жыл бұрын

Love him 🙏

@lullaby218 Жыл бұрын

@@williammunny9916 Sat4n bless him

@s0ld4u 10 ай бұрын

You spelled FARCE wrong.

@s0ld4u 10 ай бұрын

@@williammunny9916 What a pathetic god. Kills his son for something he could have blinked to take care of. Who kills their son? Sick.

@johndoe-bo7rx 2 жыл бұрын

Thomas Sowell has been doing what everyones been needing to do for decades. He will be legendary.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

He trumpets the views of the ruling class of bankers and bosses.

@alibbaba9473 Жыл бұрын

@@kimobrien.Silly Salabay you trumpeted a trite generalization but offered no direct rebuttal to anything he has said

@kimobrien. 11 ай бұрын

@@alibbaba9473 He claims liberal welfare payments broke up black families and not the natural workings of the capitalist system with its wage labor payments and boom and bust cycle when blacks went from family farmers to industrial workers. When Bill Clinton, "Ended Welfare as We know it." even more working class families of all colors were broken up not fewer. He claims the bosses are the victims of 2008 because they gave out housing loans that could not be paid back and not the greed of the bosses which results in the boom and bust cycle of capitalist production for profit which stops when overproduction floods markets with goods that can't be sold at a profit.

@s0ld4u 10 ай бұрын

He will be forgotten, and rightly so.

@jacobhayes5305 10 ай бұрын

@@s0ld4uyou have no clue you need to wake up

@greggsadler4387 2 жыл бұрын

A great interview. Both parties. I have been a public school teacher for over 20 years and have been a teacher for 30. I agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Sowell. The only exception I take with what he said is that there are some teachers like me and a couple of colleagues that work hard to go against the grain of the system. Unfortunately we get lumped in with all of the other teachers in the system. Right now teaching is frustrating because those that really want to do it are looked down upon by colleagues, lambasted by parents, and unsupported by administration and statewide evaluations. However every time I hear Dr. Sowell speak, I am encouraged to keep trying. Thank you

@jeronimotamayolopera4834 Жыл бұрын

LOVE VIOLENCE. DEATH TO THE MASSES.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

Sowell openly state that he favors busting the teachers union like Reagan did to the air traffic controllers. Like most bosses his solution is to cut costs and boost profits for the bosses to solve all problems.

@warnerchandler9826 Жыл бұрын

@@kimobrien.Not once did Sowell mention cutting costs or increasing profits in public education. Anyone who thinks public education is a profit oriented enterprise is likely a product of that very system. Are you a public school teacher and union member, too?

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

@@warnerchandler9826 American society is capitalist to its very core. The capitalist rule through their two party system where everything is judged upon how it fits in with the maximization of profit and shareholder value. Like I said Sowell has openly stated he favors busting up the teachers union. Sowell is nothing more than a paid mouthpiece of American big business at the Hoover Institution of Stamford University. He sits in the Milton Freedman chair.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

@@warnerchandler9826 If education wasn't based upon class then the politicians of both parties in DC would send their children to Washington DC public schools. The rich always send their children to private school and have legacy admission to elite universities.

@jackjackson7170 2 жыл бұрын

Thomas Sowell is one of the most quotable figures in the modern public discourse.

@viimaurice3131 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for getting Dr Sowells voice out to the people who are hungry for excellence.

@Frankincensedjb123 Жыл бұрын

As a conservative educator in higher education of some twenty years in a bastion of liberalism, Los Angeles, I couldn't agree with Sowell more thoroughly. Because of the inefficiencies of colleges to provide the necessary education needed in a technologically advanced society, one that is rife with change and complexity, nothing could be more detrimental to our education system than today's anti-educator. For twenty years, I have been teaching my students the inefficiencies of education as well as essentials in achievement, ethics, critical thinking, and economics to hopefully provide them with some of the tools (knowledge, attitudes, and skills) required to give them a chance at living a productive and fruitful life at work, home, and in the community at large. God bless Dr. Sowell for all that he's done for TRUE educators.

@vargviper7192 2 жыл бұрын

It is fortunate and a blessing that videos like this are available.

@rebeccashatwell2010 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Sowell is a pleasure to listen to and learn from. I have been in public education for 27 years in Texas teaching mathematics, and it is every bit as bad as Dr. Sowell describes in 2022, only heightened. We do need to fight for our students and insist that our schools and administrators truly support the students by providing them with an actual education.

@bbbart77 2 жыл бұрын

I have learned so much by listening to his books the last few years. I feel so much smarter having been exposed to this great man .Imagine what could have been done if we had listened to him 30 years.

@stephonwilliams5232 2 жыл бұрын

Really all Thomas really says is that lack of success comes down to personal responsibility

@xandercorp6175 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephonwilliams5232 Man if that's all you hear, you ain't listening.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

@@xandercorp6175 The ruling class buys its way into the elite universities with their money and legacy status. Education becomes monopolized by the ruling class as with capitalism machines are used to replace higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor and machines. This is why their can be no education worth a damn with the capitalist in charge taliking about how they rich because they are smart and not just the inheritors of property and position as a ruling class.

@beaupierrebondurant5651 Жыл бұрын

Dr.Thomas Sowell is an American treasure.

@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 2 жыл бұрын

“Thinking is so often confused with feeling”

@adamjeffs5930 2 жыл бұрын

Never a truer word said. Sowell is brilliant.

@williammunny9916 2 жыл бұрын

@MalTheMostTired 2 жыл бұрын

Is thinking about why you feel about something not thinking?

@MalTheMostTired 2 жыл бұрын

Like, is questions ones own emotions and understand how those impacts ones thoughts the first steps of logical thinking?

@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 2 жыл бұрын

@@MalTheMostTired It’s in quotes so I was quoting Thomas Sowell. if you want to debate what’s in the quote please do. I would love to hear you debate him. I’d love to hear anybody debate him but all the leftie journalists and politicians are cowards

@andrewhinson4323 2 жыл бұрын

I love how Dr. Sowell addressed the woman who was "very bright, but doesnt do well in an academic setting." I think this stems greatly from peoples general opinion/perception/assumption, that your human worth is tied to your intellect, and that to your level of education. Not everyone IS a great intellect. Not everyone is, or can be a scholar. To deny that is to deny the very categories themselves.

@lamboseeker238 2 жыл бұрын

I had a conversation about that very subject yesterday.

@praline2x 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so very glad.

@MalTheMostTired 2 жыл бұрын

why is human worth tied to intellect? Equally how is intellect measured?

@andrewhinson4323 2 жыл бұрын

@@MalTheMostTired I could hypothesize why it is so, that humans value certain traits. But THAT humans tie individual human value TO those traits is indisputable. It is the very essence of human history. Thats immaterial to the question of SHOULD it be that way.

@MalTheMostTired 2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewhinson4323 well I agree that we should value things like intellect even tho I believe in intelligence models that are more diverse than classical ways of thinking. So to dismiss my questions when they are the basis of my disagreement is...interesting. As for why that is/ought to be the case is also important to me. I have my own reasons why I believe this but I'm curious to hear from people who disagree with my politically...

@just_bee9482 8 ай бұрын

I agree with Thomas Sowell. I got my quality education in the Congo 🇨🇩. My Dad, a professor at university, never set foot in my schools and I turned out very ok. I am a research fellow in Australia 🇦🇺

@MediaObservers 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who grew up in the 90s, this was insightful.

@woodwyrm 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@TonyStark-wc3ih Жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 90s was real.

@alwillk Жыл бұрын

In the 90s Reaganomics hadn’t destroyed much of the middle class yet. My dad raised 5 kids on $40,000 in a good union job in the 90s. However, the selfishness that Sowell and Reagan were bought to spew by corporations infected lots of working class people. And here we are today.

@canman5060 9 ай бұрын

@@alwillk Without corporations where else can your dad find a $40,000 a year job to feed the 5 of you in the 90's ? Can you have a better future by firing your boss and be one your own with your special training and skill to serve the community at large ?

@kimobrien. 6 ай бұрын

@@canman5060 What makes you think you need private property and a class of wealthy owners of capital? What makes you thnik you need to judge everything by private profit?

@katking6820 2 жыл бұрын

Thomas is a National Treasure!!!

@gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192 2 жыл бұрын

I started my education in Italy, but half way through my fifth class, I told the teacher that I was leaving to join our father in East Africa, and he made a remark that puzzled me, "Why am I losing my best students?", and seeing my puzzled expression, he said that also XXXX was going to join his father in Australia. The teacher had pinned a big drawing of Mt. Everest besides the blackboard, with columns that each had the student's name in the base, and he showed me the position at that moment of the two that were leaving. He used this chart to push others in what is possible with dedication. After any of his presentations, he used to ask if anyone was not sure of having understood, and he would dedicate time to explain, until the "student" said that he the understood. My favorite subject was geography at the time, for obvious reasons! In East Africa, not knowing English, I had to wait for six months before being allowed to join second grade, and the teacher put me next to a young girl who said she would help me. So from end September 1949, till end 1951, I completed up to sixth grade, and written also my entrance examination to high school, that was accepted. Here too the teachers had the attitude of imparting education at the level of the students, and would help even after lessons if someone had problems.

@DesertDog8989 2 жыл бұрын

Oh don't get me started on this topic! Once you're in education, and you got in for all the right reasons but see its failures, it's an abysmal place to be.

@randylaperle5812 2 жыл бұрын

My father was an educator and adminstator and he was black balled for wanting to do the right things for the kids. Very sad....for the kids and our country. The intellectuals are the dumbest most selfish people on the planet.

@dericksuapaia 2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain your stance?

@BasicEconomics 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for being here!

@williammunny9916 2 жыл бұрын

@pantherman8719 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. When the normal is proved wrong its a witch hunt.

@JohnVS8 2 жыл бұрын

GOAT! God Bless Dr. Thomas Sowell.

@Vl7248 2 жыл бұрын

This man needed to run our country

@BasicEconomics 2 жыл бұрын

No one will debate him, he's 91 and they can't keep up

@Vl7248 2 жыл бұрын

@@BasicEconomics where is his current material? I assumed he was deceased

@BasicEconomics 2 жыл бұрын

@@Vl7248 There are plenty of more recent interviews on my channel :)

@OccamsRazor393 2 жыл бұрын

@@BasicEconomics I So wish him and Jordan Peterson would have a conversation, it would be Priceless!! ❤❤❤

@MrGarysugarman 2 жыл бұрын

@@Vl7248 He just put out a new book last year on "Charter Schools and It's Enemies".

@rhrful 2 жыл бұрын

It is fascinating how this man (Sowell) responds to criticism or rebuttal - with patience, composure and logic. I'm being taught not only substance, reason and logic but, as well, how to better conduct myself in discussion. He is as impressive today at 91 as he was so many years ago.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

The problem is of course he just plays the role of the neoliberal Libertarian intellectual who talks all day about a so called free market and how capitalist government isn't doing what the bosses should be or want. They buy and promote these academics and politicians based upon what they tell them.

@warnerchandler9826 Жыл бұрын

@@kimobrien.Imagine that: a second mind numbingly ignorant comment from you (so far). Leftist Troll Alert!

@alibbaba9473 Жыл бұрын

@@kimobrien.Silly Salabay! There's no substance to this response

@kimobrien. 11 ай бұрын

@@alibbaba9473 He never actually debates anyone but other liberal academics. Capitalism piles up profits by cutting labor time and replacing higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor and machines. This is why capitalism works to reduce the need for actual education and instead needs those who are order takers with only a general level of culture. The capitalist education system doesn't work for the masses of working people because it doesn't need to it only needs to train us to follow the orders of a boss and pay attention to clocks and time.

@alanblock7099 2 жыл бұрын

This man is so brilliant and mentally ageless. It's sad that many of our students are not exposed to his teachings instead lies hatred of the USA and CRT. He still is ultra sharp and amazingly insightful, that's why his name and teachings are dissed, so wrong to not share his brilliance with our young

@alwillk Жыл бұрын

He’s the black messenger on corporatism, trickle down economics and low taxes for the rich. Anyone in the real world struggle can see he is full of shit bought and paid for by corporations. Especially, since Reaganomics has ran its course almost unchecked for 40 years.

@b.alexanderjohnstone9774 4 ай бұрын

We can’t say we weren’t told - and with what exquisite clarity and chilling precision. Spending has gone up and up. Great for teacher unions.

@chichan8424 2 жыл бұрын

Whether you agree with Thomas Sowell or not, he takes no prisoner in a debate! That's why they never let him back on the mainstream media anymore.

@kimobrien. 6 ай бұрын

Where and when does he actual debate someone who disagrees with him? Instead he just wages culture war with sympathetic interviewees. Then he writes books where once again he wages culture war against what is usually a faceless opposition with him making generalizations about his opposition. For him everything should have an owner until a trade takes place. That he says is the best way to assign responsibility with a price to pay for mistakes that don't result in profit maximization. Because hes a support of capitalism he finds himself denying the truth about capitalism when it doesn't produce the results he claims it should. . . . .

@stanleymcomber4844 Жыл бұрын

A prophet, words spoken 30 years ago have come true about our education. At least a very brilliant man, Thomas Sowell.

@dongaetano3687 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing Truth via research, examination of facts, history, sound analysis and conclusions in his studies, an example to us all.

@JusticeAll-zw2mt 2 жыл бұрын

GOAT: Thomas Sowell is a true Gem! The world is better place because of him.

@mediaaccess2 2 жыл бұрын

I love you, man. I'm teaching in Hungary now and it just boggles my mind how these people graduate elementary school, let alone H.S. and then college. The level of critical thinking is pretty close to zero.

@robertwykle8636 2 жыл бұрын

No joke its truly sad how the school system turns out feels and not common sense

@MrGarysugarman 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertwykle8636 The truly sad thing is that it is by design.

@robertwykle8636 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrGarysugarman yes completely agree with what you just said

@fortusvictus8297 2 жыл бұрын

Critical thinking is not a 'normal' thing. Even people who are good at it don't do it consitently. Its a poor expectation that there will be many critical thinkers amongst any group of 20 year olds

@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 2 жыл бұрын

@@fortusvictus8297 Yes. Our great value is in finding what we do well & then doing that. Not all are academic - nor do we need them to be. I have a better than average education - which is to say nothing special - but I'm no more intellectual than I was before grad school. Now I simply have further knowledge & skills. I have friends with PhDs who can't get a regular teaching position at a university, as those jobs are held by throngs of older scholars with tenure. Take a look around & see all the lawyers we have. We have so many lawyers, many of them work as journalists, LEOs, and of course politicians. And still we tell children that they must plan to go to college, that college is one's only option for success. Some of us are not qualified for our every ambition, nor even willing to follow whatever procedures would be required to attain them, so we, each of us, must choose our best fit. We also need carpenters, plumbers, mechanics, and medics, so we actually lose overall, as a society, when the best job candidates are redirected & marginalized because academia is not their best fit. Actually, I find many craftsmen & common laborers with excellent critical thinking & arithmetic skills.

@nathanngumi8467 2 жыл бұрын

Very insightful discussion! Dr. Sowell is an intellectual giant!

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

He is a well paid neoliberal advocate of the capitalist methods of the American Imperialist Empire. A key part of which is convince people that the government isn't bought and paid for by the capitalist bosses.

@D-Rock_in_BKLYN 2 жыл бұрын

The six people that are dumb enough to give Thomas Sowell a thumb down MUST be directly related to Karl Marx

@Terminal-Man 6 ай бұрын

Hearing the ending there, with the music, really brings back memories. Of course, by the time I was listening to anything that she was saying she sounded older.

@JavierGonzalez-oe1qq 2 жыл бұрын

LOL, Did you hear what Dr. Sowell said..."Powell, Baldwin, they all spoke impeccable English not the nonsense you hear nowadays, lol" Ain't it the truth...LOL

@jaed2630 2 жыл бұрын

Like ain't. Hahs

@gamasb8222 12 күн бұрын

Ain't? 😂

@MrDanielfff777 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I have never seen this one before! Thank you for uploading

@Zofirael 2 жыл бұрын

he was right on the money since day one, nobody listened to him... the whole U.S. population would be better off if people would listen to him.

@kimobrien. Жыл бұрын

Listen to him about what like how we should all sit back and let theses stooges of Wall Street and Elite Universities like him run everything.

@alwillk Жыл бұрын

What the fuck do you think has been going on for the last 40 years? Reaganomics.

@nelsonbecerra-polito1735 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant!!! Black Americans have to access to this genius, honorable, black Americans defender!!!

@Napierius777 2 жыл бұрын

Sowell: American Legend

@Benemortasia666 2 жыл бұрын

GOAT

@italeevn6200 2 жыл бұрын

Tomas Sowell is as always right on the money

@benb3500 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant man talking about the problems we are having today but decades ago.

@alwillk Жыл бұрын

Problems his economic theories caused! He preaches Reaganomics that have ran almost unchecked for 40 years.

@alibbaba9473 Жыл бұрын

@@alwillkSilly Salabay! Have you been listening?

@darrelvela7105 2 жыл бұрын

There should be Ph.D after Sowell's name as one of the alumni of valedictorian historians and professors of what once was the American Republic according to the Constitutional insight and foresight of the Founders who like Sowell intimately studied human history from the perspectives of those in ancient times as a admonition for our knowledge and understanding today.

@gato9866 2 жыл бұрын

20 years the democrat's have been dodging the Sowell genius.

@druharper 2 жыл бұрын

Thomas Sowell will be revered by historians, a rare sane man in a sea of barbarians.

@jaromeymeckstroth2252 2 жыл бұрын

Well said, it's sad he doesn't even rank in the top 100 most influential African Americans

@matviyk3066 Жыл бұрын

@@jaromeymeckstroth2252 that is so damn sad. Good thing he understands the general opinion is skewed by incompetent leaders and probably doesn’t feel to sorry for himself.

@KumoOtokoZero 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for curating the best content ever!

@sanmigueltv 2 жыл бұрын

What a great video. I need to watch it again and again.

@BasicEconomics 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! please share it!

@praline2x 2 жыл бұрын

Gosh us Brits until recently used to so revere radio 4. Quality interviewing and guest such as this is inspiring.

@ghayes220 2 жыл бұрын

Goat

@waynesimmonds9646 9 ай бұрын

Thomas Sowell is one important sole. He should be the go to consultant for education.

@fortusvictus8297 2 жыл бұрын

"...they are so in hock to the National Education Association that nothing will be done that will disturb the people down at the NEA." -Dr Sowell My, talk about how little things change. 2021 and the NEA have continued to destroy public education...just now we have words to affix to the philosophies like 'Social-Reconstructionist' theory and C R T.

@kathyhagan8444 2 жыл бұрын

GOAT ❤️

@jinayaoneal1885 5 ай бұрын

This is back in 1993. Still holds true today

@michaelmccoy7986 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Thomas Sowell famous Economist: The Greatest of our American Time.

@stefanlane4517 2 жыл бұрын

"The public school is very good at blaming the parent", should have been worded differently. It should've read, "the public school is very good at blaming the parent for NOT doing the things at home that support the child's transition into a school setting." Being intellectual is not the same thing as being smart. I know many "intelligent" people who lack "wisdom". And it is THAT wisdom that enables an individual the ability to operate their intellect fully. The idea of "harnessing your power and using it for good". He adds, "the parents and the public have been pushing the schools to have more academic material". It's very easy to see how someone on the "outside" can develop an opinion about what would make a school better on the "inside". But the perspective of the people who LIVE on the "inside" is a completely different advantage.

@fraditoto 4 ай бұрын

This aged like the finest wine

@tschell89 Жыл бұрын

Blessed the day I discovered Thomas Sowell!

@maximusaugustus6823 6 ай бұрын

He is more relevant today than ever

@simongelsi409 11 ай бұрын

Living legend and a magnetic personality. GOAT

@neilrichardson7454 2 ай бұрын

😊😊when National Public radio was actually quality listening.

@enoerofebowtb7571 Ай бұрын

…right! Back in time, from time to time, I was always glued to C-Span, C-Span 2, C-Span Book Review, and what have you. Although Dr. Sowell is still a national treasure, C-Span was also once both a public and a national treasure… don’t follow it as much nowadays..?

@edblair5253 2 жыл бұрын

The caller who defended the system said it just confidence and the economist is conflating issues. 30 plus years later that guy would call and say the same thing. Lol

@enoerofebowtb7571 Ай бұрын

…one of the many things I respect and admire about Dr. Sowell, and there are many, is that he’s always patient and willing to respectfully listen to the other side of a question and to other points of view, and he really listens before opining, until his ‘junk-debunk meter registers and goes off ..and pegs out… lol! ..gotta love him!

@imout671 2 жыл бұрын

Why why why would any intelligent person put their child in a government school. People say "oh our school is different its better" . Bull hockey.

@fortusvictus8297 2 жыл бұрын

Some ARE better than others. Private schools do not have to report their success ratio or test scores, so they get away with a lot of hiding. In my area, I know from my own experience the local high school is equal in its outcomes for bright students as the private Catholic schools in the area...what IS different is the student body, so the 'avg' that go to high-end schools is lower in the public high school, but when adjusted for parental income level, the highschool there is no noticeable difference and they have far more students than the private schools.

@dongaetano3687 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys.

@BasicEconomics 2 жыл бұрын

You bet!

@thegracetofollow4194 5 ай бұрын

Dr Sowell wa si ahead of us

@figward 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@jeffw5263 2 жыл бұрын

My 6th grade teacher, Mr. Fornear wrote this word on the chalkboard, “antidisestablishmentarianism” and we discussed it.

@gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192 2 жыл бұрын

I have been reading many of the books of Dr. Sowell, whenever I hear the nonsense that surrounds us, especially the present class of those that are supposed to be governing our countries. I thought it was purely a problem of party affiliations, but on return to Europe after 41 years away, and had to vote for the first time, I asked my cousins to guide me on the choices. One asked me what I would like in whoever would represent me, they all laughed at my reply, and puzzled as I was , the other one simply said I should not vote, as that type of candidate does not exist. The third cousin explained that politicians end up choosing that line, because they are incompetent in anything else, but must only have the gift of the gab and a straight face.

@silas6328 2 жыл бұрын

780 views... that is pathetically disappointing. 780K would be more appropriate to the content.

@andrewhinson4323 2 жыл бұрын

add 3 more zeros and you might be in the ball park

@Borrow919 2 жыл бұрын

I notice this was posted 2 days ago and it's up to 2382 views so maybe in a year it will have alot more.

@mlmperez1114 Жыл бұрын

“No free lunches” Amen!!!

@animateddream1035 5 ай бұрын

My good word... When was this interview? This is directly correlative to the issues we have today. This is surreal...

@realtalk7547 Жыл бұрын

Zero money is an issue, but as a parent who home schooled with nominal money and tattered books , my children who subsequently went to high school, ended up in the 90% range at the top. One daughter ended up leaving high school with a 2 year college degree. It’s discipline and “ want to.”

@gdavidelliott Жыл бұрын

Funding for schools, inversely proportional to test scores. Something has to change, and it isn't more funding. Sowell is a national treasure.

@StevenCovey-ct3sx 6 ай бұрын

This is hilarious. We went from grade inflation in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, to no grades at all.

@senglomein5766 Жыл бұрын

"If you think the confusing of the Vietnam War with the Korean War is 'thinking and meditating' why----that's very nice, but the tragedy is that these kids have no conception of thinking." ~Thomas Sowel

@mikekoziar5594 5 ай бұрын

This is one intelligent man how can listen and articulate incredibly well 👏👏

@tedwazonek7956 Жыл бұрын

I am a man in my early sixties from Canada who recently found Mr. Sowell on youtube. I have been talking about the exact same things my whole life. America, you have a living contemporary philosopher right in front of you. Please pay attention, listen and learn! This man is one of a kind, truly a genius! 👍🏻🙏🏼🫡🇨🇦🇺🇸✌🏼

@EternallyRound Жыл бұрын

This guy is prophetic

@evamerritt9308 2 жыл бұрын

The teacher of today is no match for teachers of the past 50 years. I’m shocked at the student of today. They are literally blank!

@olubola9274 2 жыл бұрын

That’s by design.

@redneckhippy8711 Жыл бұрын

Look up fleccas talks where they interview young people today and ask them simple history or math questions and it’s so sad ……

@Bogdan.Muntean 2 жыл бұрын

The part with "people like me shouldn't be in ballet" is golden - the culminating point of people who just did not listen carefully to what Professor Sowell was saying up to that point. We are educated to think so highly of ourselves. I'm in Romania and I can see this Western trend of exaggerating our perceived self-worth being picked up by people who don't pay much attention and think they are brighter than they really are and they are so loud they'll cover everyone. If you contradict them, they'll come up with stuff like "you're misogynistic" or "because of people like you, people have low self esteem and don't achieve much" and other stuff like that. Also, I am shocked that this trend began in American schools in 1993 when I can see the recording says this show was held.

@muckey7800 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. First watching now. Im excited to see one that I haven't seen yet

@MsCkbt 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my, Dr Sowell certainly understand Big E! I have kept his book and so appreciate his wisdom and courage.

@ophelia_III 5 ай бұрын

Since this interview government’s from around the world have stopped teaching cursive in the classroom. Around 2010 they took it out, fast forward to 2024 and California and Ontario are bringing it back. And I quote, “ A lot of historical documents going back two or three decades are actually in cursive, Students need to be able to read them”.

@CanWeGetDeep Жыл бұрын

That little laugh after “…THE MONEY HAS NO EFFECT” at 37:04 😂 the callers ignorance is hilariously frustrating

@mitsukaranai 7 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment. The gasp-laugh-chuckle! 🤣

@CanWeGetDeep 7 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@mitsukaranai🤣

@MsGrimstock 4 ай бұрын

I read this book last year. I wish he would come out with a revised edition.

@annemiller8227 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely GOAT!! scary that the interview is 30 years old!!

@fredjones4198 Жыл бұрын

100 percent correct. Thank you Mr. Sowell.

@brianjohnson9473 5 ай бұрын

A great man Dr sowell.

@alancornwell8674 4 ай бұрын

Greatest of all times!

@downeybill 2 жыл бұрын

great work man!

@MarkMcDaniel 2 ай бұрын

@BasicEconomics, you should put a TV citation for this interview in the video description. We can see it's on C-SPAN 2, but we need date and time of the first telecast.

@penglim224 5 ай бұрын

Have you heard this before from students who had obtained very good results in examinations when you asked them what they had learned the previous year, their reply is 'I have given all back to the teachers what they had taught me'? It seems they study for exam sake rather than for accummulation or attainment of knowledge. This is a great discouragement for teachers.

@16352huey 2 жыл бұрын

Diane and Thomas…dynamic Duo!

@lieseldoolittle2160 Жыл бұрын

I love Dr. Sowell. Cut through the crap and go to the facts! Watching this in 2023, the education system is the worst it has ever been, society has deteriorated. Everyone should read Dr.Sowell! The world is lost ! We’re headed to socialism in Canada. ´Is the situation going to get worsé? Definitely worse!