Thomas Sowell - Education Issues

[@swissecon]

Three questions to destroy most policy proposals: 1) Compared to what? 2) At what cost? 3) What hard evidence do you have? (watch "Right Direction" with Thomas Sowell here on youtube)

[@nathanw.3187]

swissecon I’ll make sure to tell aoc this

[@ajitkirpekar4251]

Lol. I tried that. It led to someone threatening me with physical violence .

[@bsabruzzo]

My new favorite phrase: " Compared to what?"

[@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath]

Favorite word: notion

[@alexrennison8070]

Compared to what?

[@accountNo9]

This man is so full of wisdom. It often seems every second sentence could be made a proverb of common sense.

[@hasdrubal121]

Thomas Sowell is a delight to watch in action.

[@Manny123-y3j]

He is amazing.

[@ericgarland3133]

This man is so capable. I fear that my children will have nobody this capable to listen to.

[@alsoknownas875]

+Eric Garland Luckily he's written many books and there are many of his interviews on KZbin. But I see what you mean.

[@xSh4dowNinja]

Ben Shapiro

[@ITFDAVE]

I fear you're right. And it will be us to blame

[@captainkirk4271]

You can't send them to this video?...

[@thomasbryant3315]

Palo Alto high school. I've been there. "...they have a large parking lot so that the students will have a place to park their jaguars..." Hahahahaha. True and so funny!

[@MrMahlerman]

A relief to hear thoughful informed intellect. Great thoughts on education. I dropped out of the field when I found nothing inspring in the teaching, only a pseudo-psycho-analytic curriculum geared as directly stated towards controlling students at various stages. A huge auditorium with no opportunity to interact or question what we were being led into. I had to leave. Education needs truth warriors. So does our media.

[@raulgomez9036]

Wow I couldn’t agree more. I’ve always said this, in regards to schools not adjusting according to a child’s ability. Back when I was in school, I was better than everyone in my class at math and was like this for many years. Now, I wasn’t a genius like the kid Sowell gives the example of, but I was of course very bored. This came back to haunt me because once I reached high school, I just stopped paying attention, then I fell behind in math. This is the first time I’m hearing someone mention this and it was said decades ago by this genius Thomas Sowell.

[@Adrian-wb4fk]

the power in his voice !!

[@Tmonstaa]

4:00 has actually happened to me before. It was a required English course at my University and I got a B+ because she graded relative to our ability. I remember being so mad and thinking how unfair. I always wish now I would have said something

[@cj-nyc2057]

hes amazing. watching in 2020 ..more relevant than ever .

[@Cormac2023]

Thomas Sowell is great. One of my top two Authors.

[@andrewnickell5516]

whos the other?

[@richarddavis1163]

"Social Justice". Make the people as stupid as possible to insure that you can sell them anything. Well accomplished.

[@mannylora]

Well said. I eliminated social and justice from my vocabary. That's how much I despise that indefinable term.

[@richarddavis1163]

mannylora It's just another belief in the impossible as far as I am concerned. You have a typo there.

[@richarddavis1163]

mannylora As do I. Typo*

[@richarddavis1163]

mannylora "Vocabulary".

[@nathanrobinson1099]

+Richard Davis How do you keep the herd captivated? Affirmative action.

[@UncleKosta]

What a beautiful mind. Absolutely stunning. It really gives me hope every time I listen to this intellectual titan...

[@higgsbossman1525]

"there's a phone coming up" *shakes head* "uh uh microphone" classic

[@BennyOcean]

We need more people like this.

[@DieFlabbergast]

Well, Dr. Frankenstein, you'd better get busy down in that laboratory of yours, because the natural birth process seems to be coming up with nothing but dunces!

[@room2growrose623]

This happened in my community, an affluent area, parents proposed a charter school, the public school regime went ballistic and the proponents for the charter school were bullied into nonexistence .

[@milord265]

I think Sowell is the only person I've never had a disagreement with. Not yet anyway.

[@nknowledge11]

I love your channel! I literally looked around for new sowell videos yesterday! I'm looking forward to picking up Dr. Sowell's anthology!

[@ivanandreevich8568]

Thanks for suggesting this randomly to me 10 years later KZbin 😂

[@AllNighterHeider]

What great character shown for that last question!

[@aaoppe]

It's tragic that most people overseas have no idea who Thomas Sowell is. So much of what he says applies to European politics as well, and couldn't be more relevant than it is today.

[@sdprz7893]

Yh i'm from london and no one here has heard of him but thanks to the internet I just discovered him and he's a genius

[@xealit]

yep, confirmed in Portugal. They know and hate Friedman, but don't know Sowell. When introduced they say something like "well, at least he's black" -- casual leftist racism.

[@mohamedgoldstein5565]

I havent seen this before. What a gem.

[@ajackson5955]

People in Chicago need to be watching this right now.

[@willpower3317]

This may as well be standup comedy. Excellent.

[@anthonydepasquale7844]

I love this guy!!

[@nachannachle2706]

What Dr Sowell says about Human resources in Education was true back in the days. Nowadays, his analysis would be perceived as too caricatural and superficial. Some school managers (I don't call them leaders, because they run schools like businesses minus the vision) disapprove of their appointed staff (guess who made a poor choice during the recruitment process?) but don't have the guts to fire them. Now, who are the "bad teachers"? You get teachers who teach subjects they know nothing about, teachers who "don't want" to manage discipline and coax kids with lollies, teachers who pretend they can teach regardless of lack of sustained improvement in their classes, teachers who believe they are there to entertain their students first and educate last, teachers who overestimate their abilities to do something but still can't be bothered to obtain adequate remedial training, teachers who are there to entertain their colleagues and don't care about what they teach, teachers who come to school to promote "activism" but can't be bothered to teach thinking skills, teachers who want money for their mortgage and dislike students, teachers who only want part-time hours on certain days of the week, teachers who only want Grade 11-12 classes, etc... The spectrum of what a "bad teacher" is wide and infinite because different schools have different requirements defined by school managers. Therefore, any teacher can become a bad teacher at any given moment M in time which relies heavily on whether or not (s)he is in the right school/educational institution. I don't believe in blaming the Unions/Education system for this. I think School managers should take their responsibilities. If they want/need to fire a teacher, they need to get down at it seriously by collecting evidence of the teacher's poor performance. But often, School managers don't care about "bad teachers", even when students/parents/colleagues complain. It's only when they are faced with the prospect of "funding cuts" to their schools that they start looking at who is it that they can get rid of to save some money on their budget. Bad luck, the Unions won't let them do as they please, they should have been proactive with that in the first place. It's easy to blame teachers and workers, but in a business, the MANAGERS are the one who should show more commitment to the success of the whole entreprise, instead of looking solely after their pay-rises. Edit: spellings/grammar

[@stevegam1776]

My hero. Frickin' brilliant.

[@nivagnoswal]

this guy is the man...

[@seibrav]

The guy knows how to apply statistics and studies appropriately in terms of perception and economics.

[@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath]

Great idea. Sowell as a standup comic

[@danlamprich4874]

I love the smug nerdy laugh at 3:07. Regardless, Sowell is a powerful thinker and has earned his right to his opinions

[@daegueric]

Think things through, Dan Lamprich. Your post is rubbish.

[@theunrealjackson]

YES. I got 3 so far.

[@xealit]

4:20 "why such common sense is largely ignored in the national press" -- it is too common, it won't make hot news!

[@0HippyHunter0]

I went to a "Top 50" state high school. They maintained their top 50 status by sticking the under performing kids, for one period or an entire day, in the "special education" program. Kids that were troublemakers, slackers, unchallenged, disinterested, or stupid were removed from the reporting statistics when they were put in that program.

[@russianbear54]

Drunken Thomas Sowell is a bit loose and cackling. One day this video will go viral.

[@Scipionyxsam]

What's the name of the little intro and outro song playing

[@Tall_guy_racing]

Scipionyxsam darude sandstorm

[@Scipionyxsam]

YOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@josephkirsh6464]

Take Five by Nate Leath

[@mpcc2022]

I love Thomas Sowell.

[@sheilabright2091]

One of the greatest things about this lockdown for me has been Thomas Sowell!! I discovered him shortly before the libraries closed because of Covid, so I had a stack of his books to read and plenty of time to read them! Every time I listened, I got that book! Haha my new treasure!!!

[@mpcc2022]

@@sheilabright2091 That's awesome, I've purchased several of his works during this lockdown as well, because there's plenty of time to read just about anything. During the lockdown, I've gotten: Markets and Minorities, Patterns of Black Achievement, Basic Economics, and The Vision of the Annointed. They are quite the treasures as you've put it. Not many thinkers/writers are as factually driven, rigorous in their arguments as Mr. Sowell and very accessible in their writing. I also, don't know if I would be interested in any politically motivated issues if weren't for Thomas Sowell.

[@ahtartersauce101]

The best point he makes is Merit-based aid in colleges. It's a joke. Nobody should get an extra chunk of money for getting a high school degree with a 3.0 as compared to a student who has the SAME degree but with a 2.8 . Like he said it's a "Scholarship for getting a scholarship."

[@ahtartersauce101]

***** Which is because Grades are not the indicator of a students worth. It is just a letter. Grades also cut out all the other factors of education like extracurricular like sports. Also, that students in poverty will always have lower grades than well-off kids. Its a FACT. So, that's why I refuse to base a scholarship off of a NUMBER like GPA. Also, that education should not be seen as a production factory. That is the fundamental flaw that has made us overtest our kids, and have over the last 30 years created an elitist system of the college-educated and non-college educated, and NOW its college-educated from state and college-educated from IVY LEAGUE. It's been a TERRIBLE system.

[@blessedalcuin]

+Michael Carrillo Grades may not be the indicator of a student's worth but they are very much an indicator of his effort. "I refuse to base a scholarship off of a NUMBER like GPA." Do you think there are scholarship committees that don't look at the whole student?

[@ahtartersauce101]

Saluki Clearly there are committees like that, especially when faced with similar GPAs. They simply pick the higher of the two. And GPA is a bullshit indicator of effort. If a person gets a C in math and gets 2 GPs out of it, does not mean that student was lazy. Just like how an A doesn't mean outstanding effort. That A is more indication of laziness than a person with a C.

[@blessedalcuin]

Michael Carrillo Sorry but there are committees that can tell the difference between an applicant who spent all his spare time hanging out on the corner and an applicant who spent twenty hours a week volunteering at a hospital.

[@ahtartersauce101]

Saluki Bullshit. Not when the one hanging out at the corner has a 4.0 cuz he don't give a fuck. Meanwhile, the hosptial volunteer has a measly 2.3 gpa bc they don't hve time to study. No committee is going to take the 2.3 person cuz GPAs are the golden number. As stupid as that is.

[@LibertyDownUnder]

LibertyPen, Do you have more details about the Pepsi case at 13:50 ?? This is the 1st I heard of it.

[@Newtype1982]

This man's like a hot knife through bull.

[@incarceron1]

I really wonder where this notion that education, schools, universities, are about « feeling good » and « self-esteem ». You build your self esteem. And you build it on your accomplishments. If you have accomplished nothing, why should you be made to feel good about yourself ? If you do, great, if you don’t: get up and do something !

[@pops1507]

National treasure

[@virtuesignal3935]

What is the name of the song in the intro please?

[@chonmanriquez6045]

Take Five-Dave Brubeck

[@ramonmartinez2819]

failing schools main problem is the culture of the community

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Repost Thomas 1980s school debates so everyone can hear our present predicted problems thats in that debate. its been pulled over the last months

[@bj1white]

Does anyone know if some of Sowell's books can be purchased on Amazon?

[@ikepotts3673]

I’ve been to the amazon boom store and they don’t have them there but they are online I just bought the new one discrimination and disparities ... oh god this is five years old

[@nathanw.3187]

Ike Potts haha

[@thepielife]

He was 69 years old here O_O

[@StephenDoty84]

I just saw the international result for 15 years olds. Canada did better than Germany and above average. The USA did below average and worse than Italy & Spain even.

[@vusumuzi_mathumo]

how many kids are there per each class in america

[@nathanrobinson1099]

+Stephen Doty I wonder how much of it was "teach to the test", as a Canadian.

[@blessedalcuin]

If only teachers would "teach to the test"--they'd be teaching so much more than they had taught before! In the U.S., the only goal for the teachers has been, "Get our students ready for the next level," which doesn't mean a thing and doesn't mean they have to have anyone ready for anything. Give 'em all passing grades and move 'em along. Excellence in Education!

[@nathanrobinson1099]

***** Yup, only furthering the futility of university education. If only life mimicked school...

[@tartredarrow]

3:15 Gilbert Godfried

[@richarddavis1163]

Never allow "istart 123" into your system.

[@richarddavis1163]

***** Thank you. I think that I have tried Malwarebytes, but I can't recall for certain. I'll try again.

[@1slandB0y77]

Dunno when this was originally recorded, but judging by Dr Sowell's age, probably 10-15 years ago. Whatever the case, things have not improved in education since the video was recorded - not in the US, not anywhere else in English-speaking "western" countries. Watching the slide into "utter garbage and nonsense" happening in NZ, I'm amazed students can even walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone tie their own shoe laces or do any kind of useful, practical things with the drivel being spoon-fed to them or squeezed into their mouths from the regressive liberal fascist teat... :-| But, I'm not surprised: the best way to overthrow a country, by stealth, is by indoctrinating its youth with lies and nonsense. Worked well for the Nazis of the 1930's, working brilliantly for the Nazis of the 21st century

[@turabullschools2411]

Great points. Schools are certainly failing, but I believe much of it is because local control is taken away and discipline is in short supply.

[@aykcroid]

Spelling mistake.

[@theunrealjackson]

I agree 99%, I disagree w/ his assessment on Iran being so dangerous. Forgivable since it's (foreign policy) not his field.

[@stephenleger4400]

Sowell's whole attitude summed up seems to say that if you can succeed, great and that if you can't too bad. Those who can succeed do, those who can't, well screw'em. Those can't in this society become grist for the mill, a source of ever necessary cheap disposable labor. He seems to understand the situation but doesn't offer any solutions, only a defense of the conservative view point.

[@fzqlcs]

+stephen leger yes, let's take away the incentives to succeed. what could possibly go wrong?

[@farscape1975]

+stephen leger I agree completely with you! I like his arguments, but they seem to treat human beings like units in statistics. He fails to take into consideration that people have different struggles and need different kinds of help.

[@P0RKINS2]

You mean he views the world through the prism of reality rather than through the lens of intended outcomes? What a novel concept.

[@perfectsense3240]

+stephen leger He offers a lot of solutions and also exposes the realities of poverty in America. The poor in America have more living space per capita than the AVERAGE person in Europe. Let's not overexaggerate with talk of "grist for the mill" when consumer culture has pounded the poor for years as they have central air conditioning, several automobiles a lot of times, brand new shoes, and iPhones. Additionally he outlines how poor people are not the ones pursuing the types of degrees that yield high incomes. Sounds simple until you see poor college grads with humanities or art degrees when they never had the money to risk that lifestyle in the first place if they feared continued poverty. He doesn't say "screw you" he says "help yourself" because what you're doing right now is wrong and is dooming you.

[@blessedalcuin]

+stephen leger Nice way to fall into the same trap that our teachers have fallen into--that whether you will succeed or not has nothing to do with hard work but with your innate abilities that cannot be pushed or encouraged or altered. And that's what's wrong with today's public policy and social system: the world owes you a living if you choose not to stay in school, if you refuse to crack a book and learn something, if you can't be bothered to get out of bed, or if you're not willing to try something new. Thank you for giving us the culture of Do-Nothing-We'll-Take-Care-Of-You.

[@abdonrodriguez3586]

Why is he the only black man who hold these values

[@mgm8075]

Abdon Rodriguez He’s not, he’s just one of the few who’ve been recorded stating these values.

[@turabullschools2411]

I hold these same values. You just need to meet more black people.

[@bluewater454]

That is a ridiculous generalization that adds nothing to the discussion of improving our schools. If you don't know how to identify problems, you wont know how to find solutions. This requires critical thinking, not stupid cynicism.

[@bc5cd]

He has written boundlessly on where the problems lie. You are the anointed in action

[@brownitus]

Sowell is awesome, but his decline into Godwin'ing at every turn in recent years is hurting what should be an otherwise great legacy.

[@antoineariel1178]

Thomas Sowell is a stark defender of traditional conservative and elitist ideals. That's why they kept him on college campuses writing articles and columns. How fitting that he is Black. The inference is that racism, and oppression and severe inequalities don't occur anymore. He's a tool. Yet, I will say I did learn some things from him that enhance my learning. He's full of information.

[@daegueric]

Antoine Ariel Cornell and UCLA are hardly the kinds of places that "keep" anyone around for such reasons. The man was first published in 1960 and testified on behalf of Judge Bork before the committee that vets SCOTUS nominees. It's hard to imagine a more idiotic comment than yours. You're a tool.

[@MrSilus2000]

Antoine Ariel I don't see him as a "defender of conservatism". That implies he would be willing to compromise the facts in order to support the cause. And that is all too common for both conservatives and liberals these days. It's just so rare to find someone like him that comes from such a pure, unpoliticized point of view.