June 15, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Anyway, R.R. Reno, Rusty Reno, has written a column, which is up at DennisPrager.com, that it's so bad now that the impoverished education at elite colleges is such that he holds it against an applicant for a job if they went to an Ivy League college or Stanford-type college. | |
| I totally agree with you. | |
| My suspicion is if you tell me your kid is at Yale, especially Yale, it's really accessible. | |
| I assume that you have nothing in common with your child other than family bonds, which I hope obviously remain. | |
| But that's how bad it has become. | |
| So I'll ask you a question I don't normally ask, but I'm curious. | |
| As to your answer, what rays of hope do you see? | |
| Well, you ask all the hard questions. | |
| Yeah, I have a feeling I'd get a sober answer like that. | |
| There are educational institutions that do a fantastic job, or many of them. | |
| I mean, I'm sure many of your listeners know about Hillsdale College, a very... | |
| Extraordinary place, really. | |
| We've hired a number of people from there. | |
| They've been among our best. | |
| There are little Catholic colleges. | |
| Thomas Aquinas College is a great folks' school. | |
| Really, I think it's top 25 liberal arts colleges ranked in the country. | |
| But there you could, if you're a... | |
| You don't even have to be a pious Catholic. | |
| You send your kids there and they'll actually learn things over the course of four years and do it in a moral environment that ennobles them rather than degrades them. | |
| By the way, forgive me, I just wanted to say, I could make a very powerful case for non-Catholics, for agnostics, for atheists to send their kids to Aquinas College. | |
| What does it hurt to learn about a good religion from good people who are teaching it? | |
| It's a puzzle to me. | |
| Maybe you disagree, because you said it was for pious Catholics, I think, and I was thinking, it's for pious agnostics. | |
| No, I agree. | |
| I mean, it's predominant, but I feel the same way. | |
| Send your kids to Yeshiva University in New York. | |
| That's right. | |
| At least dance with something. | |
| I tell people to send their kids to Israel instead of, it's for a break between high school and college. | |
| Send your kids to Israel. | |
| You have to be Jewish. | |
| Just send them to the real world. | |
| By the way, one of the great benefits of going to Israel for six months even is you'll realize how much lying goes on in the mainstream media when you realize you're not in an apartheid state. | |
| I agree. | |
| I think my son went to Israel for nine months, and it was a great experience. | |
| You know, life matters there. | |
| You can't afford to live in this. | |
| You know, there's an existential threat to the state of Israel. | |
| You can't live in this dream world that woke America is being plunged into. | |
| It is so interesting to me that your response was that you sent your own child there. | |
| You, obviously, a committed Catholic. | |
| Well, my wife is Jewish, though. | |
| Right. | |
| Well... | |
| So my kids went to... | |
| They went to... | |
| All right, so you cheated. | |
| I had to choose, right? | |
| So I would say my kids went to Jewish day school. | |
| K-6, we would have gone all the way, but that's all they had in Omaha, Nebraska, where we were living. | |
| And people said, well, aren't you Catholic? | |
| I said, oh, look, I would much rather my kids, I mean, my kids were raised Jewish, but I would much rather, even if they were being raised Catholic, to go to a religious school, if you're a religious person, is incalculably better than going to public school. | |
| Yes, I've said that to Jews. | |
| Jews. | |
| If you have no Jewish school in the city, your kid is better off as a Jew in a committed Christian school. | |
| Protestant or Catholic. | |
| That is exactly my view. | |
| I want you to have a God-centered education. | |
| If it has a theology that you don't share, big deal. | |
| But you will get a God-centered education and that is everything. | |
| People ask my wife, why did you marry a Christian? | |
| She said it was harder to find somebody who believed in God at Yale. | |
| She was a Yale student. | |
| It's harder to find a person that believes in God at you than it was. | |
| God, does that make sense. | |
| And so we share those values. | |
| That's right. | |
| And I think the same thing is true for education of your kids. | |
| This is the world we live in the 21st century, and I think religious people sense that, and we really are uniting. | |
| That's right. | |
| Oh, there's no question. | |
| And that's part of the mission of First Things Magazine, is to speak for religious folks. | |
| We argue amongst each other. | |
| We should, too. | |
| You know, we shouldn't pretend that we believe the same things, but we know that we're shoulder-to-shoulder against an increasingly aggressive and hostile second world. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| We have far more in common than divides us right now, and we obviously have a common ideological foe. | |
| Anyway, we put your article up at DennisPrager.com. | |
| I'll have you on, of course, again. | |
| I love First Things, and thanks for coming on. | |
| Thanks. |
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