The Corrupting Power of Higher Education

By Bill Donohue July 5, 2022

As I pointed out in Common Sense Catholicism, higher education corrupts our capacity to exercise common sense. This is most glaringly obvious among white people; they have spent more time in school than blacks.  The latest Pew Research Center survey on transgender persons unwittingly offers more proof of this observation.  

Respondents were asked whether being a man or a woman "is determined by sex assigned at birth" or if it "can be different from sex assigned at birth."  This inaccurately worded question, written by well-educated researchers,  underscores my point about the corrupting power of higher education.

Sex is never assigned—it is determined by the father and is detectable during pregnancy........... Most important, our sex cannot change. It's impossible. We are either conceived as a male or a female and no amount of cross dressing, puberty blockers, chemical castration and genital mutilation can ever change that.  Still, it is amazing to read that 38 percent of those surveyed believe our sex can change. Who are these people?........The survey conclusively shows that the longer one stays in school, the less common sense he is likely to have.........To Read More....