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Jean Pierre Rawie finds it strange that ‘all those learned minds’ searched for so long for a solution to the English disease
Columnist and poet Jean Pierre Rawie has been annoyed for years by the Anglicization of universities in the Netherlands. Finally, a cure seems to have been found against this ‘English…
Jean Pierre Rawie has been criticizing ‘the English disease’ at universities for years: ‘Quite madness’
Fewer foreign students in the Netherlands? The universities presented a plan for this on Thursday. Our columnist Jean Pierre Rawie has been advocating for less English at university for years.…
Anyone who worries about ‘dereading’ forgets how much misery this much-glorified skill has been responsible for column Jean Pierre Rawie
“Reading a lot makes you stupid,” my dear friend Jan Lokin used to remark, faithfully adding that he derived this insight from his teacher, the legendary legal historian Scheltema. Of…
If he had slept in now and then, it would have easily saved a few hundred thousand victims / column Jean Pierre Rawie
History is full of powerful people. We are constantly told of the energetic exploits of princes, generals, and conquerors. When you read the biography of a Caesar or Napoleon, the…
The merciless progress of time destroys even the most rosy memory | column Jean Pierre Rawie
The Collective Propaganda Foundation for the Dutch Book (CPNB) has been organizing the National Book Week since 1932. This festive event has a specific theme every year, which is usually…