Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C.S. Lewis

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Going to College? For the sake of what?

November 20th, 2006 No Comments

In his book The Idea of a College (1959), educator and Harvard chaplain D. Elton Trueblood identified the American cultural assumption regarding the purpose of higher education:
 
“Millions, when they think of college, think primarily of one thing—how can the student be prepared most perfectly or most quickly to do the work associated with his intended [...]