In Thomas Sowell's A Personal Odyssey, he recorded an exchange with a black student (p.223): "I just don't understand it, Dr, Sowell," he said. "The Jewish st

In Thomas Sowell's A Personal Odyssey, he recorded an exchange with a black student (p.223): "I just don't understand it, Dr, Sowell," he said. "The Jewish students do twice as well as we do." "Only twice as well?" I said. "When they work three times as hard? What I can't understand is how you fellows do as well as you do, with no more effort than you put into it." Earlier in the book, he talks about how he nearly flunked out of Harvard during his first semester there because he was working like he had at Howard and it wasn't enough. (pp.118-9)