Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Peter Robinson | Thomas Sowell | Hoover Institution

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  Tom Sowell and I have recorded some 20 shows over the last couple of decades.

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  Shall we make it 21?

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  Thomas Sowell on Uncommon Knowledge now.

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  Welcome to this special edition of Uncommon Knowledge.

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  I'm Peter Robinson.

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  Thomas Sowell lived as a boy in a house without plumbing in Gastonia, North Carolina.

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  Spent his teen years in Harlem.

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  Tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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  How history might have been different.

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  Served in the United States Marine Corps.

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  Holds degrees from Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago.

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  taught at Douglas College, Cornell, Howard, Brandeis,

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  Amherst, and UCLA, has published at least 40 books.

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  There are different ways to count them depending on revised editions, new editions, reprints,

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  and so forth, and has served for 48 years now as a fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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  Tom, you and I talked about the conversation we're about to have today,

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  and you said you wanted to devote it to one topic.

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  not economics, not race, not sociology or culture.

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  You want to talk about education.

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  Yes.

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