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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.