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All my life, said Charles De Gaulle,

I have had a certain idea of France. My own life has also been profoundly shaped by an idea. Not of a

nation but of a school. All my life, I have had a certain idea of BYU.

An idea that is of a school in Zion,

a school conceived in revelation and dedicated to the proposition that the glory of God is

intelligence, a school whose roots run deep in the rich soil of the restoration, a thrilling theology thundering to all the world that it is

impossible to be saved in ignorance.

A school relentlessly concerned with education for eternity, education of the whole person, the

eternal soul, a school that insists emphatically and unflinchingly that we can indeed have it both

ways, that superb scholarship and rock-solid

faith are not only compatible but inextricable.

A school where teachers keep their subject matter bathed in the light and color of the restored

gospel and occasionally bear formal testimony of truth.

A school where not even the alphabet nor the multiplication tables

are to be taught without the spirit of God.

A school that aspires in process of time

to become the fully anointed university of the Lord, a school in Zion. the with this idea of BYU. But I don't know where to keep that faith if not in the hearts

of you students. And so during our brief time together I hope to transmit to you something of the heritage that others have bequeathed to me.

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