• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Sunday, July 6, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home Miscellaneous

Higher Education in America: The Great Divide

by Tim George
in Miscellaneous, Worldview
Print Print
Higher Education in America: The Great Divide
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton –

There are a number of assumptions made in our modern era about a college education, including that everyone needs one and deserves to have one paid for them. Nearly all institutions of higher learning, both secular and religious, have come to expect government to be a silent, if not active, partner in nearly every phase of providing an education to their students. A brief overview of history shows this to be a fairly new concept of what the role of higher education should be.

As already stated, this partnership between government and college is a relatively new phase in the development of higher education. Medieval universities existed almost solely for the purpose of professional education. Of the 79 universities in Europe during this period, almost all were schools of medicine, law, or theology. With the Renaissance came a renewed emphasis on Greek and Roman literature, along with the addition of arithmetic, geometry, and music.

During the Reformation and post-Reformation period, universities placed every aspect of education in the framework of a Christian worldview. Colleges in early America were firmly built on this educational model and nearly all were governed by trustees of one religious body or another.  The religious colleges found during this period read like a who’s who of American higher education:

  • Harvard – founded in 1636 as a Congregational school.
  • William and Mary – founded in 1693 as an Anglican school.
  • Yale – founded in 1701 as a Congregational school.
  • Princeton – founded in 1746 as a New Light Presbyterian school.
  • Columbia – founded in 1754 as an Anglican school.
  • Brown – founded in 1765 as a Baptist school.
  • Rutgers – founded in 1765 as a Dutch Reformed school.

Prior to the 19th century, every college founded in America was a purposefully designed integration of faith and learning. With the exception of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, all were Christian-based colleges with a firm commitment to revealed truth.

“A native of America who cannot read or write is as rare an appearance…as a comet or an earthquake.” – John Adams

In the mid 1800s a shift began to occur in both established and newer universities. Career and vocation became separated from faith and truth, leading to a dualism. It was a subtle but unstoppable shift in worldview. There was a breakdown in the visions that saw every discipline and specialization within the framework of faith. This division of faith from learning and teaching was the beginning of the confused and disconnected approach to higher education that is known today, even among church-related institutions.

Following World War II, a rapid expansion of higher education has taken place all across America. Now there are around 3,600 institutions of higher learning: 2,000 public and 1,600 private. Many of the public institutions are community colleges. Others are large research universities. Of the 1,600 private institutions, almost 800 maintain some church relationship (about 400 mainline; a little less than 300 Roman Catholic; and few more than 100 Evangelical).

Along with this division of truth and vocation, and an increasing role of government in every level of higher education, has come a prevailing notion that such an education is both a right and necessity for all people. Community colleges, once designed to be two-year vocational training institutions, are quickly becoming four-year degree granting institutions. Federal student grants and guaranteed loans have further cemented the partnership between government and higher education. The result is a system that has divested itself of the very roots upon which it was built.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
– Albert Einstein –

Many of today’s colleges have become the bastions of liberal and socialistic thought, institutions that disdain the very foundational principles upon which this country was formed. They teach an anti-Americanism that is affecting the way this country operates. Perhaps it’s time to revisit the question of our universities and community colleges and what they teach. We’re going to have to capture the minds and imaginations of our young people to keep this country firmly grounded in its founding principles.

We have allowed others to use our schools for their own ends. They have infiltrated our society at its most vulnerable and highest levels.

For the sake of our future, it may be time to run a little stealth operation of our own, and focus on taking back our schools.

ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

Why It’s So Hard To Argue… Debate Or Discuss Anything These Days

Why It’s So Hard To Argue… Debate Or Discuss Anything These Days

by Bill Heid

The Truth is… All Facts are Run Through Filters In today’s polarized world, it’s easy to assume that the person...

Sanctifying Our “Churchy” Idols

Sanctifying Our “Churchy” Idols

by Bill Heid

How We Manufacture Doctrine, Church, and Theology Into False Gods Many of us Protestants are quick to condemn icons and...

Ringing The Liberty Bell In 2025… Proclaiming Liberty Throughout the Land

Ringing The Liberty Bell In 2025… Proclaiming Liberty Throughout the Land

by Bill Heid

The Power of Symbols in a Nation’s Story Though Americans often pride themselves on being practical and unsentimental, we are...

Next Post
Solar-Electric and Hybrid Boats

Solar-Electric and Hybrid Boats

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

The Dos And Don’ts Of Compost

The Dos And Don’ts Of Compost

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Millennial Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rocks Dem Party

Getting to Know You

Getting to Know You

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

Privacy Policy   Terms & Conditions
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.