Thomas Sowell

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.