Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 88 of my late, great colleague Walter Williams’s 1995 volume, Do the Right Thing; specifically, it’s from Walter’s October 11th, 1993, column (for which I cannot find a link) “School Choice”:

The charge that choice will destroy public schools boils down to confessing that public schools are so rotten that, if given a choice, parents would opt out. Saying that parents can’t make wise choices is another example of the education establishment’s demeaning and paternalistic attitude. Even the most ill-informed parent could not do as much educational harm as many public schools now do.