It is certainly possible to obtain a good education at the nation's large universities, but it requires careful course selection, a sophisticated awareness of contending worldviews, and a savvy, skeptical temperament. For a Christian, it means the ability to engage in intellectual and spiritual warfare. Universities play a valuable role, which must not be overlooked just because the current state of academia contains so much decadence. Universities are the means by which our culture builds its intellectual capital. Much of the nation's scientific research is carried out at our universities, which have given us much technological and medical progress.
Universities end up preserving, applying, and transmitting our cultural heritage.
They are the patrons of writers, thinkers, and other culture-makers. Most of the books in the library were written by scholars at universities. The university was a Christian invention. With the loss of this foundation, the current scholarly slide was only a matter of time. Universities once devoted to the pursuit of truth are, ironically, the very institutions that are denying there is any such thing.