QUOTE OF THE DAY
In some professions, a large part of the time of first-rate people is spent countering the half-baked ideas of second-rate people and trying to salvage something from the wreckage of the disasters they create.
-Thomas Sowell
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What was the context for the quote?
Sowell was describing the arbitrary way that college admissions are handled. Most of the piece was about how a lot of second rate people are being let into the top colleges. He surmises that it's hurting education because the pace is too slow for the top students and too fast for the second tier ones. The quote's purpose, I think, was to make us think about situations that we've encountered with people who weren't up to the work.
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