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Informative Essay About Liberal Arts College

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College isn’t just a way to get an education, its not just learning a skill to get a better job, or make more money, its a place for the mind to grow, for you to grow as a person. Most colleges today only focus on teaching the material about the subject at hand, but not giving the students skills for the real world. A liberal arts college benefits students in more ways than an ordinary college, by providing the students with moral values, strengthening their faith, and bringing a sense of God being a part of everything we do. In todays society teachers are taught to teach the materials students need to excel/pass the course, lacking the morality of it all. In a religious liberal arts college, each professor has to be the religion of the university. Houston Baptist University is a Baptist bases Liberals Arts College, where every teacher must be a Christian. Christians want and desire to be Christ like, meaning to serve and be the best person they can be for themselves, and others. As teachers you have a huge impact on the students, they could make or break a subject for a student. The more involved they are with the students, and the more they care the …show more content…

You surround yourself with so many different people kinds of, people with the same love for Christ you have. It is a great way to build you your faith and build up others faith. Surrounding yourself with those who have the same beliefs motivate your to be better. You get an overall better understand of what being a Christian really means, and how to defend it. “… studying them will give us the brain-power to better defend our beliefs and convince others that the Christian worldview is true”(Robin Phillips). Phillips, in the quote, wants to make a point that we need to spread the word. To spread the word we need knowledge to back it up. In doing so, we need to be educated to answer questions, and to spread the truth of the

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