Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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DEDICATING The Church influences every phase student life at BYU. Students spend many hours each of week home teaching, participating in speech festivals and road shows, studying the scriptures, drawing close to the Lord through family and personal prayer, and trying to apply the ideals they learn in their daily lives. The purpose of education is to prepare men to live fuller, happier, and more fruitful lives. To fulfill its purpose education must be focused and dedicated to the high ideals taught in the gospel. This is also the goal of BYU as a private. Church sponsored university — to teach all truth and to focus knowledge and skills to the service of man and the building of the kingdom of God on earth. What good is a psychologist who cannot teach a patient the purpose of life, or a teacher who is not familiar with the methodology of the Master Teacher? And what good is a biologist who cannot explain the nature of life, or a mother who cannot answer her little daughter ' s questions of where she came from and what happened to Grandpa when he died? Indeed, the combination of this knowledge is our religion as defined by Brigham Young, who said, ' ' Our re- ligion is simply the truth . . . wherever found in all the works of God and man.