Kudos to FNC!
Writing by treason on Sunday, 27 of November , 2005 at 8:33 pm
The Fox News Channel did something that I wish they’d do more often. Fred Barnes hosted a two-part special that was essentially an interview with Thomas Sowell. What a splendid idea! I wish I knew who to thank for this one. I’ve always admired Sowell, and it’s rare to see him interviewed. My hope is that FNC makes this a regular feature.
What’s wonderful about Sowell is that he’d been a Marxist and it was a government job that made him move away from Marxism and move more to the right. It became clear that everything he ever believed about the role of government was wrong. It wouldn’t ever be able to do what it wanted to, and if it ever did it wouldn’t do it well.
One thing that government does very badly is education. On this topic, Sowell is my hero. If anyone has any illusions about government schools, the state of public education, or the quality of any college education/teacher training program, he or she should consult Thomas Sowell.
It reminds me of a conversation I had with someone recently. T and I had dinner with our friends who had also invited a couple people we used to work with but hadn’t seen for awhile. One was there with his wife, who was getting close to finishing her teacher training program and getting a job with our city school system. I was discouraged to hear her talk about things that my peers and I talked about when we were going through a similar program. “So you’re an ed-yoo-kay-tor, too?”
“No,” I said. “I’d planned to teach after college but the Education courses and year of student teaching in a public high school pretty much convinced me that public education should be abolished.” I told her my stories that sounded exactly like her stories.
“When did you get out of college?”, she asked, wide-eyed.
“1982.”
The look on her face was the highlight of the evening. How discouraging to think that after all these years, the same problems haven’t yet been solved. Years ago, Thomas Sowell was approached about taking over the Department of Education. He declined, knowing that it was a lost cause. A very smart man, that Sowell.
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