He was the Milton Friedman scholar at the Hoover Institute but he didn’t teach classes, basically he was held there to research to his hearts content and that also became the source of his books and how he was able to gather so much data for all the books.
Well there's no substitute for experience. You can tell a child that the stove is hot, but they won't really understand until they touch it with their hand.
I think I read that in his biography maverick which was pretty well written. But he essentially saw the writing on the wall with students in the 60s and didn’t want to be hamstrung by universities to pass midwits.
Thomas Sowell quit teaching in the 70s because the academic standards were too low.
Really? I thought he kept teaching. Then again that would explain all the books he has written since then
He was the Milton Friedman scholar at the Hoover Institute but he didn’t teach classes, basically he was held there to research to his hearts content and that also became the source of his books and how he was able to gather so much data for all the books.
Still boggles my mind that being a student of Friedman didn’t cure him of his Marxism but what did was working for the government
Well there's no substitute for experience. You can tell a child that the stove is hot, but they won't really understand until they touch it with their hand.
It's a pity that it happens to so many adults.
I was right wing before I worked for the DoD.
I became an extremist from what I witnessed.
I think I read that in his biography maverick which was pretty well written. But he essentially saw the writing on the wall with students in the 60s and didn’t want to be hamstrung by universities to pass midwits.