Thomas Sowell, adopted by a family of four adults, grew up in Harlem and attended New York City schools, which he says were the best in the country in those days.
Although I was raised by people with very little education, they were people who wanted me to get an education. They praised my every little accomplishment when I was very young, and I was taught to read by the time I was four years old, taught by someone with only a few years of schooling herself.
Read more here from Dr. Sowell here as he contemplates some of his luckiest moments in his illustrious 85 years.
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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, and practicing yoga.
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