Friday, August 19, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 15:26)
The Power of the Liberal Arts: The Promise of Understanding the World Around Us and the World Within Us — And How Modern Higher Education Has Lost Its Mind and SoulThe Art of Choosing What to Do With Your Life by New York Times (Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey)Part II (15:26 - 19:53)
What Should I Study to Prepare for Service to Christ for the Rest of My Life? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a High School Student Listener of The BriefingPart III (19:53 - 24:34)
How Should I Manage My Time So That I Don’t Waste It? By the Way, Where Do I Find the Time to Sleep? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a High School Student Listener of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 19, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.0 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | What is the purpose of education? |
| 0:15.7 | What's the purpose of higher education? |
| 0:18.4 | If you are going to college, why? |
| 0:20.4 | What do you hope to obtain there? |
| 0:22.3 | Why are you going to college, or university? Why would you send someone you love to college or university? Why are so many untold billions upon billions of dollars spent in the enterprise of higher education. What does it mean? Why |
| 0:34.7 | does it matter? Well it's interesting that that question is being asked out loud in |
| 0:39.4 | many different circles. For one thing, the very high cost of higher education, and it's not just a cost born by the student or |
| 0:47.0 | the student's family, it's increasingly a cost born by the society. |
| 0:51.6 | You go back to the period of the 1960s and 70s a vast |
| 0:55.0 | infusion of federal money by no coincidence led to a vast increase in the |
| 1:00.3 | cost of higher education and in tuition costs all that's related. |
| 1:04.6 | There's more to the story than that, but there is not less to the story than that. |
| 1:08.3 | But it's also clear that the modern system of higher education has lost both its mind and its soul. It's lost its mind in the sense |
| 1:15.5 | that if you look at the catalogs of many universities, there is a complexity of majors and |
| 1:20.7 | minors and programs and areas of study that simply seems to have |
| 1:25.1 | very little connection with reality. You have the rise of certain kinds of |
| 1:29.7 | majors that all the sudden become very very sexy so to speak in marketing very very |
| 1:34.5 | attractive and yet you look at the number of jobs related to those majors and |
| 1:38.9 | you realize this is really not going to add up much and then you look at the fact that a few years after graduation, |
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