Your Expectations Are A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The writer Thomas Sowell once noted, sardonically, how sad it is that editions of Frederick Douglass\u2019s memoirs, when provided for high school students, were forced to provide annotated definitions of many words. What does it say, he asked, that a slave in the 1800s was able\u2014under the penalty of severe violence\u2014to teach himself a vocabulary that privileged high school students cannot manage after a hundred and fifty years of progress? And what does it say that we have to spoon feed the...