Preventing Intellectual Shock

GERTRUDE BAYLESS

^{Christian Science: Its Encounter with American Culture (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1958),  p. 187;}

You won't find it in the catalog, but every university has a hidden curriculum. Intentional or unintentional, it consists of such pressures as alienation and pluralism.

Disturbed by these influences, students may be estranged from their loves and confused about their goals. They find it takes a plunge into fresh levels of consciousness to snap out of this confusion. Hence our theme: dare to know, sapere aude. Go deeper in thought to a more daring style of knowing than the cerebral. Know and experience the ultimate. Dare to know the spiritual absolute, the reality of being. As Christ Jesus reassures his disciples, "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God."^{Luke 8:10;}