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Monday, September 24. 2007

St. Michael's

I learned about a fine New England liberal arts college today - one of which I had never heard. St. Michael's. Its proximity to Stowe is just an extra.
Posted by The Barrister in Education at 16:02 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Catholic colleges are infinitely superior. My daughter goes to Fordham. I am not a Catholic. She is getting small classes, strict curriculum based on the Western canon, and rules that protect her, such as that nobody is allowed in the dorms of the opposite sex after 2:00 AM. Her friends at places like Vassar and Wesleyan have coed bathrooms, sex in their rooms (tough on the roommates, I would say) and they HATE it, but they're embarassed to admit it for fear of seeming uncool. You really have no idea what hells of iniquity most modern colleges are. And we send our kids off to them to sink or swim, even though they are the opposite of every rule we enforced through 12th grade. It's horrible.
#1 Park Slope Pubby on 2007-09-24 17:10 (Reply)
We have begun the college search for my eldest and found an interesting one we are planning to visit: Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimakc, NH. BTW, I attended Frodham Prep and Iona College, good schools both.
#2 NY_Upstater on 2007-09-24 20:02 (Reply)
For an insight into just how bad our colleges have become read this piece (copy and paste). I believe you will be stunned. Any term you don't quite understand can be found on wikipedia.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i46/46b00801.htm
#2.1 apple pie on 2007-09-25 01:13 (Reply)
Too bad I didn't take keyboarding back then. Sorry folks.
#3 NY_Upstater on 2007-09-24 20:05 (Reply)
I know faculty at St. Michael's. It's pretty moonbatty even by university standards. It's the kind of Catholic school that has spurred these:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/25/catholic
#4 rightwingprof (Link) on 2007-09-25 13:15 (Reply)
Thomas Moore is great. Two of my nephews went there. Their friends are the smartest best educated people you can imagine. They give me hope for the future.
#5 Park Slope Pubby on 2007-09-25 14:12 (Reply)

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