Thomas Sowell wrote: Derrick Bell was for years a civil-rights lawyer, but not an academic legal scholar of the sort who gets appointed as a full professor at one of the leading law schools. Yet he became a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and was a full professor at Harvard Law School. It was [...]
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Bishop Joseph McFadden said: In the totalitarian government, they would love our system. This is what Hitler and Mussolini and all them tried to establish — a monolith; so all the children would be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things. Pa. Bishop Does Not Recant Saying that Hitler And [...]
Civilization in Reverse
Posted in Economics, Education, History, Politics, tagged Civilization on January 30, 2012 |
Victor Davis Hanson wrote: The average Californian, like the average Greek, forgot that civilization is fragile. Its continuance requires respect for the law, tough-minded education, collective thrift, private investment, individual self-reliance, and common codes of behavior and civility — and exempts no one from those rules. Such knowledge and patterns of civilized behavior, slowly accrued [...]
