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Uncommon Knowledge: Thomas Sowell

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unbounded_thinker Avatar
unbounded_thinker
Posts: 6
Posted: 04.24.08, 08:54 PM
I strongly agree with Sowell. I strongly recommend that people who agree with me check out this website: http://www.rootforamerica.com , and try their best to kick "the annointed" out of office.
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Michael A. Thompson
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Posted: 04.27.08, 06:03 PM
Damn I like this guy. Talk about "strait talk". It's rare to come across someone who interacts with the world as it is, rather then how he perceives it. I'll certainly be getting his book.
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solaris
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Posted: 05.06.08, 08:18 PM
Mr. Sowell is a wise man, indeed. From my limited experience (as a "junior scientist") from two european universities (in Sweden and Spain), we share many of the "problems" that are mentioned in the interview.

W/best wishes from Canary Islands, Spain.
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bilal
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Posted: 05.28.08, 09:06 PM
One of the defining quotatations that describe Sowell is particularly funny because he's serious. He says, "Why are we spending time, ya know, hugging trees and doing other such stuff like that when are kids can't read?"
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shari
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Posted: 01.11.09, 01:28 PM
Speaking of hugging trees
It is time to cut down on pages and pages of curriculum being churned out by Education Departments. Example, 100 pages of NZ curriculum for Under 5s can be shortened to just one page to read: "Play, Read, Write."
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vlad
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Posted: 07.30.09, 10:13 AM
He mentions the correlation between the age at which women marry (A) and the proportion of women in the workforce (B), and assumes a causality relation A -> B. However, he doesn't offer any argument for this assumption. Why did women marry later in 1920s and 1930s and then again in the 1960s? He offers no reason. Perhaps it is B that causes A, i.e. increased accessibility in the workforce (more opportunities) leads to women deciding to marry later. Seems to make more sense.
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Denver
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Posted: 09.28.09, 07:20 PM
I belive thomas stated that one of the reasons women began to get married and have children in the late forties and fifties where caused by the baby boom they started to rise again in 1956 which was before the feminist movement
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