Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This will continue to get worse until (a) parents stop sending their kids (and alumni stop donating money) to these indoctrination camps, and state legislatures (b) stop all funding for “DEI” and “departments of education” in state universities, and (c) shut down every “teacher’s college.” Neither of these remedies is new at this blog, as others have brought them up many times. But they are desperately needed. Even a richly endowed private school will take notice when its enrollment drops off a cliff. And without state funding, a state school cannot maintain any given significant activity for long, no matter how many outside donors try to replace that money. It’s long past time.
Stanford applies a very selective admissions algorithm. What it gave them was a class full of head cases. Conformist head cases. Evidently, all but two of the faculty are just fine with that. If the board had any fiduciary sense, the law school would be shut down and its faculty discharged.
As Walker Percy observed: it doesn’t take much effort to turn college students into fascists. Paul Johnson makes that point in “Modern Times”: Germany had a higher percentage of college graduates than France in 1920, but the students (nearly all upper or middle-class males) were either ardent nationalists or Communists. The Nazis has easy pickings there.
End the Dept of Education and stop all Federal loans and grants for colleges. Let them figure out how to attract customers, just like any other purveyor of a commodity. They started in order to compete with the Soviet Union in the ’50s, and they are creating a Soviet Union today.