Everything Thomas Sowell Thinks is Wrong - Education

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Thomas Sowell talking about those evil teachers unions and charters and government subsidies etc.

Why Tuition Costs so much UPDATED (pdf file): http://is.gd/YWTHGv

See Example: http://is.gd/8ScRZ7

Teachers Unions Improve Education: http://moourl.com/z4ce1

State Rankings of Math (you can create others): http://moourl.com/ycltv

Stanford Charter School study: http://moourl.com/uyoc4

For full study see pdf file: http://moourl.com/z09r6

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[faihdartur]

What Thomas Sowell is trying to argue for, and your argument fails to address, is that if there is going to be any change, it will have to come from the people. Moreover, it would be in the best interest of change that we adopt educational policies that give the power to the people and not the system. This is the argument for a disestablishment of the bureaucratic system. Sowell does argue for pure capitalism, and that may well not be the best course, but it is far better then the current one.

[AndroidPolitician]

@faihdartur

So the people want charter schools that do worse than public schools?

People want over site and control, they just don't want charters and vouchers.

[pelegray]

Sad, your argument uses 1994 stats for pell grants? Do you really think tuition costs are going up because of colleges building new building or Olympic size swimming pools. That should be easy to isolate, so schools who did not build building or pools will not have rising costs? I also don't know where you come from with this idea that government subsidies don't increase costs, didn't Joe Biden say they did? Also in states like Mass can you argue that non-union schools have lower performance?

[AndroidPolitician]

@pelegray

Tuition is going up because state funding is being cut for public schools (aka where the vast majority of students go) which shifts the costs to the student in the form of higher tuition.

Government subsides as a basic econ 101 principle don't 100% become demand, some of it does and increases the price, but most just acts as the subsidy and lowers the cost to lower than it would have been without the subsidy.

Mass has some of the most union schools period.

[faihdartur]

Even if you are right on all your points, the system is still grossly inefficient and needs to change in a big way. That change is not going to come from the bureaucrats within the system that are basically paid to keep the "cattle rolling". It isn't going to come from the teachers who either care enough, but get mired down by red tape, or simply don't care. It isn't going to come from the politicians, they don't want to lose votes by telling people that the system isn't working.

[faihdartur]

Next I contend that the United States of America spends more than most every country in the world and yet our education standards, reflected by test scores internationally (PISA), are dismal. I think that it can be established that our educational system is not efficient to the task it has been assigned, and pouring more money into the system hasn't changed its effectiveness. Simply put, there needs to be a overhaul of the entire system. That is what Thomas Sowell is advocating.

[faihdartur]

AndroidPolitician, I want to start off my rebuttal by addressing your unnecessary use of vulgar language. It implies that you do not posses the intelligence to articulate a more defined statement. I do not think that you are unintelligent, as such I feel inclined to offer encouragement to use a wider range of the English language.

[AndroidPolitician]

@justforpoox

Poverty in the most generous welfare states is very small and practically non-existent compared to the US and UK.

The same can be said for individual countries as well before and after adapting welfare.

In fact the only way for you to come to that conclusion is if you assume people are so stupid and greedy that they can't invest welfare for a better life.