I am making an unabashed appeal for a distinctly LDS approach to education. ... [As] one faculty member recently wrote me saying, 'We need—without arrogance but with energy and daring—to try [to] integrate faith and scholarship in our writing and in our teaching...
Jeffrey R. Holland
President of BYU
I am making an unabashed appeal for a distinctly LDS approach to education. ... [As] one faculty member recently wrote me saying, 'We need—without arrogance but with energy and daring—to try [to] integrate faith and scholarship in our writing and in our teaching and improve it until it stands on its own merit. ... We especially need to get over merely trying to imitate others or win their approval. Too many [here] are still worrying whether what they write or say will pass the judgment of [a particular university] (of all places!).' 'We ought,' he concludes, 'to more fully find a way, a unique way, to combine the best of traditional scholarship with the religious and moral questions and perspectives intrinsic to that scholarship and to the restored gospel. That ought to be not an avocation, but a central part of our scholarly work.’