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Christian Brothers are influential on their students, or maybe they're not. Maybe they're ultimately inconsequential in their impact on society, or maybe they turn out to be secretly running a massive worldwide conspiracy to introduce Marianism to the entire planet. With this helpfully collated information, users of this encyclopedia can more easily start to work out the answers to these questions themselves; without it, understanding, one way or the other, becomes more difficult. I think we're here to help our readers understand the world, and this list can help that.
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to inculcate, a particular ethos or way of thinking and acting, just as the
Jesuits do. Just as it's useful for readers to have access to a list of those educated by Jesuits - to "compare and contrast", if you like - so it's useful for readers to have access to similar lists for those educated in different traditions. I don't generally care for "list" articles, but they are a lot easier to read than working with tags, so I think I'm persuaded to
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cross-categorisation. The primary contributor to this list article, and also the one vehemently defending the article, has offered nothing in the way of independent secondary sources to accompany this article to make it even a remotely notable topic. Effectively, all this list serves is a massive puff piece for the
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Oh dear. I came here expecting to vote to delete this, but (annoyingly) I'm persuaded by the above reasoning. In particular, I note that there is a similar list for those educated by
Jesuits, but this isn't a "foolish consistency" point: rather, I note that the Christian Brothers do have, and do seek
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was a 19th century Paris-based chain of schools for Jewish children in Muslim countries, it was run out of Paris and taught a modern curriculum in French. If individual articles are inadequate they should be dealt with individually accordingly and that is not an argument to delete this whole article.
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Knowledge: it provides a convenient articulation of
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Catholic religious order. Wouldn't you expect them to promote the catholic faith in their schools including the Catholic doctrines relating to the Virgin Mary etc? Also should all lists of alumni attached to wiki pages for the schools now be deleted
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Spirit and approach (whatever that means) aren't important to this AfD, multiple reliable sources that connect to the
Christian Brothers to the Alumni is, but sure lets keep articles becuase of spirit. Whatever. Anyway, the Christian Brothers didn't produce those (questionably accomplished) people.
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An organization is affiliated with hundreds and hundreds of schools. It doesn't own them, they aren't franchises -- it's an affiliation. That affiliation can begin and end at any point in that school's history. This is a list of alumni of schools which happen to have had that affiliation, many of
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I said a connection between the Christian Brothers and the people that are in the list. Not academic research that identifies and discusses commonalities in the Christian Brothers' educational approach. Create a Christian Brother's article and put all the research on the Christian Brothers
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