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I don't think you're giving the grads enough credit for having the brains to see the difference between the strict rules they lived under and the rest of the "real world." By that logic, grads of the anything-goes public colleges we have today would be incapable of exercising leadership at all, yet many do and do it well.

Those kids want to go to a school where Christ is put front and center. Are they overly legalistic? Yeah. Do they sometimes lose their view of their Savior for the forest of rules in their way? Possibly. But it's still providing the Christ-centered education that these students and their parents want. And the rules provide structure and discipline that some of those kids probably need.

The LU grads I've known have been no better- and no worse-adjusted than the grads from the public university I attended.

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"By that logic, grads of the anything-goes public colleges we have today would be incapable of exercising leadership at all, yet many do and do it well. "

Not at all. Normal, secular universities and colleges support a wide range of behaviors. Yes, there are drunken frat boys and dopers at these schools. I wouldn't hire them, either. But...there are also serious students who are there to learn and who take part in activities in their schools which helps train them as leaders.

Not everyone at a public university is an idiot. However, everyone at LU is a person who can exist, and thrive, in an autocratic rules-based society. Every one. And I would have no room for such folks in any organization I ran. I'd be looking for the creativity and flexibility that is absolutely essential to successful business.

You won't find either at LU. It's actively discouraged. Have you ever been on campus at one of these schools for more than a few hours? It's incredibly stifling.

I have. I attended a "Christian" college for one semester, back in the 60s. It had all those silly rules, and then some. I didn't break any. I didn't get in trouble. I just left, since I couldn't see any value in such an education for four years.

I went on to a California public University, where I graduated with honors and have made excellent use of the education I got there. I wasn't wild. I wasn't drunk. I went there, studied, graduated, then went on with a successful life.

All you'll get from LU or BJU or any of the repressive "Christian" colleges is training to become an autocrat. Not much call for those in the real world.