Carolina QuotesIt is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Know-it-alls in the school system do not lose one dime or one hour's sleep if their bright ideas turn out to be all wrong, or even disastrous, for the child.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
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Wake up, Parents, Jewish World Review, 18 August 2000.
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