"What I learned in college..."

some thought-provoking quotes from a book i'm reading, Total Truth by Nancy Pearcy....

"The tragedy is replayed over and over again, as Christian teenagers pack their bags, kiss their parents goodbye, and head off to secular universities, only to lose their faith before they graduate, falling prey to the latest intellectual fads...The dominant methodology in most Christian schools and churches has been to protect children from nonbiblical ideologies, and in part that is educationally sound. It makes sense to protect children until they are developmentaly ready to handle complex ideas. But in many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their familes, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses." (Pearcey, pg 125, 126)

Thoughts?

"We like to control people because we don't like to confront them. We ought not to be afraid of our culture" -Spencer McCuish