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I think there are two extremes you can go to here. We can easily get the one [extreme] where everything is just like any other university. It’s very rigorous: 'Here’s the facts, here’s how it works, learn it and that’s it....'

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Scott Sommerfeldt

Physics and Astronomy

I think there are two extremes you can go to here. We can easily get the one [extreme] where everything is just like any other university. It’s very rigorous: 'Here’s the facts, here’s how it works, learn it and that’s it.' The other extreme in my mind is [where] you’re so worried about bringing the Spirit in [that] it’s a seminary class and all the rigor vanishes, so it’s a spiritual high for the student, but they don’t learn anything. I think there’s a balance in there that we’ve got to find. We’ve got to have a rigorous class where it’s challenging, it’s educational, they’re learning things that the world is trying to learn, but they’re feeling the Spirit as they do it. And that’s not always an easy balance to get.