This is a volatile subject! People have VERY strong opinions about this topic as seen on the many comments on Girls Going To College. It seems most disagree with me, but that is okay. I am not God and I don't know everything. I just write my own convictions.
Cassi went to Biola University her freshmen year. Biola stands for Bible Institute Of Los Angeles. It is a good university. It is one of the handful of universities left that still teaches Truth. She especially loved her Bible classes. The professors were good teachers.
She went to a community college near home when she was nineteen years old. It only cost $400 a semester which was much cheaper than Biola. The first assignment given to her in her sociology class was a fifteen page study on gay bathroom sex. She read the first half page full of explicit details and was disgusted. She showed Ken and he told her that she wasn't going to read anymore and to email her teacher. Her teacher told her she had to read it or it would affect her grade. She dropped the class.
When I told a friend about this recently, she thought Cassi should have written a response to it showing the other side of the issue. I told her that the Bible tells us not to even know what perversion happens behind closed doors.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Ephesians 5:12
To be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
Romans 16:9
To dwell on the lovely, the pure, and the good.
Philippians 4:8
Several years later when she was twenty one years old and grounded in her faith, she went to the local university. One class discussed gay sex in prisons. On gay pride day, several of her classes spent the whole class time discussing gay lifestyles. I don't think there are many parents out there that pay big bucks for their children to learn this trash.
Dennis Prager believes higher education is the single most destructive thing in our society. It has taken God completely out of the teaching and instead is teaching humanism and left wing ideology. They teach the government is the answer to all our problems when the welfare state has destroyed families. They teach that abortion and homosexuality are good things.
I know many of you think higher education is great. If you can afford it without going into deep debt, if you don't mind left wing indoctrination or if you do and can find a good Bible teaching college or online college, then go for it. I just want you to be wise. Don't go blindly along with what society is doing. It is the broad path that leads to destruction.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
I Timothy 6:20,21
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Tiffany · 683 weeks ago
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Rightthinker · 683 weeks ago
My husband is highly educated, and I have a partial college education. My husband did so debt free, and we will encourage our sons to figure out their careers..whether it be through apprenticing, military, college, trade school, or good old fashioned employment with the opportunity for advancement. Their worth to us, is not based on their worldly achievement, either. So long as they are living according to obedience to Scripture, and fulfilling their responsibility to provide for their families, I feel blessed beyond any worldly degree.
It's sad to me so many Christians even limit their family sized based on what college savings they can provide..without any contribution from their children...
God cares not about worldly achievement, but rather humility and submission to His Word.
Despite my husband working his way through college, and using his GI bill to attend a very good Bible college, sexual promiscuity, compromise, partying and every other sin was rampant. Anytime you pair immature young people with freedoms beyond their ability, and many done so without any personal stake (financial or otherwise) applied, you are doomed and ripe for sin and indoctrination into secular humanism, social justice, and anti-biblical and feminist based lies.
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Hattie · 683 weeks ago
One of the things I learned in college was that I wasn't going to agree with everything everyone said. That didn't mean I had to run away from it. I took the good with the bad, and it prepared me well for life!
mamaofatribe 14p · 683 weeks ago
Reading the assignment given was like a dagger piercing through my heart.
We are blessed to have information and communication at ones fingertips so that an education can be easily harnessed. So THANKS for sharing the above experience so that others may make more informed decisions!
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Tammy · 683 weeks ago
Opposing world views are certainly not limited to college. Whether it’s a coworker, another parent at the park, or the person behind us in line at the grocery store…be assured that our children will be confronted with it at some point in their adult lives, and most likely numerous times. And as Christians, we are called to be a shining light in a lost world. Satan has them bound – and Mark 16:15 tells us we must go to them.
If I had a daughter, my opinion would be the same. I was a first-generation college student and I obtained invaluable life lessons during my college experience. Lessons that helped mold my character and faith. Lessons that shaped me as a wife, a mother, and a child of God. After graduation, I obtained employment in an area that requires a college degree. (I would like to add that my husband and I paid my college tuition out of pocket and I had no college debt upon graduation.) Several years later, after our child was born – I desired to stay at home with my son. However, due to debt related to our infertility struggles, our personal situation required that I return to work for some time. I prayed that if it were His will, God would allow me to stay at home with my son. However, He had other plans for me. Thirteen years after I signed my first contract, I am still employed in the same position. And over time, God has revealed to me some of His reasons for keeping me in this role – which ironically, is in education. I am in contact with hundreds of individuals each year – many of them lost and hurting. Hundreds of souls who hear and see my words and example. Hundreds of opportunities for me to show a Christ-like love and servant’s heart.
Each situation is different – but I feel that God calls us to stand up and stand out for Him – not to hide. It is my duty as a mother to ensure that my son is well-grounded in his faith and convictions when that time comes for him to spread his wings. Please know that I respect the fact that we all must make personal decisions in the best interests of our family, but I wanted to present an opposing view as “food for thought,” if nothing else.
Tammy · 683 weeks ago
I'm T · 683 weeks ago
Obviously I have no idea what it actually was about, but perhaps you missed the forest by staring at the trees. Perhaps this could have been a really interesting paper for your daughter to discuss how being separated from the mainstream alienates her...
Kaye · 683 weeks ago
Finding out that these things exist is always shocking and eye opening for someone like me who lived a very sheltered life growing up. When would it be okay? If 18 or 19 isn't good, would it be any better at 25 or 30?
I attended a public university for 4 years starting when I was barely older than 17. Guess what? I attended church while there (although not each week), I made some stupid mistakes, I made some great friends (some of which who were just like me and some of which lived very different lifestyles), and I solidified my beliefs. No, it doesn't happen that way for everyone, but living in that environment prepared me for the real world. The real world where gay sex does happen in bathrooms, whether or not I like it.
Knowing these things happen, meeting people they happen to, and learning to love them despite their choices is how we are later able to relate to them. Not because I have "been there, done that" but because they might listen to my beliefs once they understand I genuinely care about them and their hurts and issues. I don't have to agree with them to care about them. And I'm never going to meet them if I don't join the rest of humanity.
And yes - I had to read about gay monkey sex in a sociology class. It was disturbing. But I wrote my paper, took my grade and moved on with my life. It was part of the core curriculum of my school and I wasn't able to get around it. I dealt with it and moved on with life. I did not feel indoctrinated or anything because of it because I knew my beliefs and morals.
Just my two cents.
tia bennett · 683 weeks ago
I believe educating a woman is very important and would not trade my degree in. It has helped our family out on more than one occasion. Education is never a waste, even if it is learning what not to do.
I love the African quote:
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).
Probably a Fanti ( Ghana )
PJB · 683 weeks ago
Perhaps it is simply an issue with her chosen field of study. One would not expect to study medicine without seeing nudity, nor chemistry without encountering poisons and explosives. One would not expect to study agriculture and never see manure. Once can simply not expect to study sociology accurately while overlooking and never discussing the gay lifestyle.
If I decide to support a child of mine in the study of sociology, I would that my funds had been misused if the program I paid for avoided discussing any and all sinful behaviour. That would be a ludicrous travesty of an education. Even if I'd rather people were overcoming homosexual temptation rather than glorifying it -- even for that goal it's obviously important to study and understand the phenomenon and its expressions.