On educational institutions

So, I was thinking about what we do in our post secondary education.

I spent eight years in post-secondary education.  I have seen curriculum revisions.  I have prepared accreditation reports, I have watched faculty agonize over what to teach.  Out of this I have sympathy for teachers who are trying to figure out what to teach.

Then I ran across the following quote, which seems to place liberal arts post secondary institutions in a fossilized position:

Perishing communities (and ideas) produce historians and sociologists and academic conferences. Flourishing communities produce preachers, missionaries and prayer meetings.

Actually, from the day a flourishing community begins they create records (history) and ways of doing things (structure) and enthusiasm (which is measurable). 

I think problems arise when you are studying the movement more than being the movement – you are in trouble. 

Nevertheless, a word to the wise.  Where are your efforts going in your own personal life, in the life of your marriage, in your church, in your community?  If you are sitting back and analyzing and never participating, you are in trouble!