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At the rally in North Dakota, I argued that Christians need to start taking over the institutions of cultural leadership.

I argued sort of broadly that we need to take over these institutions but today I want to continue to

advance that claim by arguing that in particular Christians need to build and

run the colleges and universities of America that we need to be in charge of these.

As the late bluesman Dr. John once so eloquently put it, your edgemication ain't no better

than what you understand.

Unfortunately, despite a great deal of edu michading, it is highly debatable whether or not

our colleges are producing any understanding.

By this, I do not mean to make the sort of critique that a

salty blue-collar laborer might make about the new college boy who just come

on to the job, someone who might be full of head learning but lacking in the

practical experiences of life.

This old animosity is just the natural tension between youth and experience,

between knowledge and wisdom.

A great education is like the wineskin that Jesus talked

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