Posted on 11/17/2005 10:12:55 AM PST by truthandlife
One of the finest evangelical schools is The Master's College under the leadership of it's president, John MacArthur, who is also pastor of Grace Community Church in California.
"What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world,yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exhange for his soul?" asks Jesus (Matt. 16:26) It is more important for parents to nourish the souls of their children than their bodies, because souls last longer.
Exactly what I believe. If you give your child a strong foundation, there won't be anything at any school that will change him. I'm sure many freepers here survived some very liberal schools.
Or you can take the route I took: Go to a blue-collar state school where the vast majority of students work a job in addition to taking classes. Not only do these kids not have any time to misbehave, they respect the value of hard work. It was funny watching the well-fed, over-educated NYPIRG brats try to recruit on campus.
The older editions of the book were well minded but seemed to be lacking in execution. I looked through this book a few years ago. The entry about my Alma Mater, a small selective southern christian school, really messed up a lot of details about course requirements, course offerings, school size/admission numbers, school policies, school politics etc. It was like they'd had one five minute conversation over the phone with a guy who took a tour a few years back. I can't speak for any of the other entries, but ours while flattering, was pretty inacurate.
Ping.
These trends are typically muted in the hard sciences, especially at the grad school level. Also depends on how long ago your friend finished his D. After all, these liberal whorehouses weren't always like this.
However, these schools' squalid secret is that the undergraduate education is mediocre. I knew several guys from Harvard, Wesleyan, BU, etc when I was attending Bowdoin, and they were very average both in their knowledge base and the material they were learning.
The fly in the ointment for conservatively inclined undergrads at such places is that they will be punished academically for their conservatism if they let it show in class, and that can handicap plans for future grad school admisssion.
" However, these schools' squalid secret is that the undergraduate education is mediocre. I knew several guys from Harvard, Wesleyan, BU, etc when I was attending Bowdoin, and they were very average both in their knowledge base and the material they were learning."
That is very true. A lot of research institutions put most of their resources into graduate and research programs. The undergraduates are neglected and are taught largely by TAs. The goal of many profs is to get to where they dont have to teach many classes, but can focus on research. These schools can give us some fabulous advances, but most of their undergraduates dont get anywhere near as comprehensive an education or have anywhere near the workload of folks at schools that are solely focused on undergraduate education. I transferred from a top thirty ranked University, to a top fifteen ranked liberal arts college. The difference in education was like night and day. Much smaller classes. Much more work. Not a single TA. Profs who were more concerned about teaching than in spouting the latest PC crap and fitting in at academic conferences.
Do us a favor and add the Ohio Five Consortium schools, Kenyon, Ohio Wesleyan, Oberlin, Wooster and Denison, as they too may pollute the minds of your christian-educated kids with, god forbid, open-minded attitude and critical reasoning skills.
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