“Letters from teachers continue to confirm the incompetence which they deny. A teacher in Montana says that my criticisms of teachers are "nieve." No, that wasn't a typographical error. He spelled it that way twice.”

— Thomas Sowell

1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

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