Carolina QuotesLetters from teachers continue to confirm the incompetence which they deny. A teacher in Montana says that my criticisms of teachers are "nieve." No, that wasn't a typographical error. He spelled it that way twice.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
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- Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
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- 1999
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