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Getting Schooled, by David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Getting Schooled, by David Warren

EDITORIAL: Nancy Pelosi Is Half Right: Her Soul Is Her Bishop’s ‘Problem’

December 13, 2024

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December 13, 2024

A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England, an engraving attributed to John Harris after William Burgis, 1726 [Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, December 13, 2024

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

Note: The always entertaining David Warren makes a crucial point today: the best education is when we educate ourselves. By coincidence — but we know there are no coincidences under God’s Providence – a reader wrote in yesterday, while making a very generous donation: ” I’m delighted to receive an essay from The Catholic Thing each morning. Education is an essential route to advancing the work of the church.” Readers may not appreciate how much writing or editing TCT is an education for us as well, in addition to our interactions with all of you. Look. We’ve got a great “Thing” going here. Let’s keep it going. You know how. – Robert Royal

One of the most encouraging aspects of contemporary life is the sudden drop in university enrolments. This is unambiguously an improvement in human affairs, at least in the United States.

The steep decline – “very large and very discouraging,” according to Mr. Bill DeBaun, senior director of the National College Attainment Network – reverses all signs of recovery from the Batflu (“COVID”) infestation, in which students were actually shut out of residences, and deprived of “services” for which they had paid.

Speaking on behalf of the higher education bureaucracy, Mr. DeBaun cited various other bureaucratic setbacks, such as the progressive withdrawal of various racial diversity schemes; and it is true that “minorities” are, proportionately, among those most absenting themselves.

But the “trend” is apparent among all classes of freshmen registering, and I can hope it will also be found among more senior students. …

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Getting Schooled, by David Warren

EDITORIAL: Nancy Pelosi Is Half Right: Her Soul Is Her Bishop’s ‘Problem’

Score One for the Tin Hat Brigade: DOJ IG Admits Dozens of FBI Sources Were at Capitol J6. None Charged with Criminal Conduct, by Al Perrotta

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, December 13, 2024

One of the most encouraging aspects of contemporary life is the sudden drop in university enrolments. This is unambiguously an improvement in human affairs, at least in the United States.

Speaking on behalf of the higher education bureaucracy, Mr. DeBaun cited various other bureaucratic setbacks, such as the progressive withdrawal of various racial diversity schemes; and it is true that “minorities” are, proportionately, among those most absenting themselves.

But the “trend” is apparent among all classes of freshmen registering, and I can hope it will also be found among more senior students. …

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