Thomas Sowell Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Schools teach ignorance.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?