Jesuit ideals let down by Gutless Gonzaga Greenboys

[AirTurbulence]

What does where someone went to school have anything to say about them? It's an elitist attitude to suggest that it does. The Jesuits seem to be a bit confused in their social teaching which includes Peter McVerry and elitism in their schools.

Agreed. I work with a guy who went to Gonzaga as a child. Works hard, does not engage into petty and ugly office politics, pleasant individual all together. There is also a guy who went to Blackrock college - can't fault him either, easy to work with, down to earth, sharp. It's down to family more than the school.

[Q-Tours]

Sports Day in Zaga is like attending the Bar Library picnic, with Vincent's Private providing the first-aid cover. I have to agree about the far-fetchedness of claiming to look at the world from the perspective of the poor, given the very selective way they ensure that only good bourgeois boys get in.

But in its favour I'd point out that they do make a big effort to involve boys in social work, and not just as a two-week Transition Year project. Boys I know kept up regular work in hospices running homework clubs in the inner city right up to their LC and after. Every year a group builds houses in Zambia and raises all monies themselves - no cheques from Daddy allowed. OK, it's not Mother Teresa stuff, but it's a damn sight better than what I've seen from some other schools. (Another boys' establishment down the road in Dublin 4 springs to mind...)

As regards the influence of the J's, I'd say it was not nearly as great as the Holy Ghost fathers, whom Dev seems to have consulted about almost everything, and the Christian Brothers.

[carlowman]

Jesuit educated people..... morally lucid, knights of freedom defending the true path constantly..... f*ck off!

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