CHARLES MURRAY is the author of two of the most widely debated and influential social policy books in the last three decades, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 and, with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. He is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
"Takes a moral sledgehammer to our one-size-fits-all education
mind-set."
—Washington Times
"It is astonishing to see plain common sense written about
education, a topic I had thought long since drowned deep beneath an
ocean of nonsense, venality, and lies."
—John Derbyshire, National Review Online
“Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” said a
well-known educator, albeit in a religious schooling context.
Charles Murray is concerned with the secular world of education,
nonetheless his message is worthy of evangelism: Tell the truth,
and the truth shall make you free of foolish, cruel, and
counter-productive educational policies.”
—P. J. O'Rourke
“Charles Murray, arguably the most consequential social scientist
alive, has discovered a nifty formula for fame (or infamy): One, in
lucid, graceful prose describe reality using evidence and logic.
Two, propose policies that actually take reality into
consideration. And, three, sit back and wait for the inevitable
caterwauling and lamentations of those who insist reality isn’t
real and who swear the crooked timber of humanity is nothing more
than the malleable clay of utopian social engineers. Real
Education follows this recipe perfectly. Even now, if you put your
ear to the ground, you can hear throats being cleared for the
caterwauling to come.”
—Jonah Goldberg, bestselling author of Liberal Fascism
“Charles Murray is one professional contrarian who cannot be
written off–not since his first book, Losing Ground, led to a
complete restructuring of America’s welfare system. At first Real
Education, with its plan for identifying “the elite,” may strike
you as an elaboration of his hotly contested views on IQ. But
suddenly–swock!–he pops a gasper: a practical plan for literally
reproducing, re-creating, a new generation of Jeffersons, Adamses,
Franklins, and Hamiltons, educated, drilled, steeped, marinated in
those worthies’ concern for the Good and Virtuous with a capital
V–nothing less than an elite of Founding
Great-great-great-great-great Grandchildren.”
—Tom Wolfe
"Takes a moral sledgehammer to our one-size-fits-all education
mind-set."
-Washington Times
"It is astonishing to see plain common sense written about
education, a topic I had thought long since drowned deep beneath an
ocean of nonsense, venality, and lies."
-John Derbyshire, National Review Online
"Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," said a
well-known educator, albeit in a religious schooling context.
Charles Murray is concerned with the secular world of education,
nonetheless his message is worthy of evangelism: Tell the truth,
and the truth shall make you free of foolish, cruel, and
counter-productive educational policies."
-P. J. O'Rourke
"Charles Murray, arguably the most consequential social scientist
alive, has discovered a nifty formula for fame (or infamy): One, in
lucid, graceful prose describe reality using evidence and logic.
Two, propose policies that actually take reality into
consideration. And, three, sit back and wait for the inevitable
caterwauling and lamentations of those who insist reality isn't
real and who swear the crooked timber of humanity is nothing more
than the malleable clay of utopian social engineers. Real
Education follows this recipe perfectly. Even now, if you put
your ear to the ground, you can hear throats being cleared for the
caterwauling to come."
-Jonah Goldberg, bestselling author of Liberal
Fascism
"Charles Murray is one professional contrarian who cannot be
written off-not since his first book, Losing Ground, led to
a complete restructuring of America's welfare system. At first
Real Education, with its plan for identifying "the elite,"
may strike you as an elaboration of his hotly contested views on
IQ. But suddenly-swock!-he pops a gasper: a practical plan
for literally reproducing, re-creating, a new generation of
Jeffersons, Adamses, Franklins, and Hamiltons, educated, drilled,
steeped, marinated in those worthies' concern for the Good and
Virtuous with a capital V-nothing less than an elite of Founding
Great-great-great-great-great Grandchildren."
-Tom Wolfe
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