BIBLICAL TRUTH It is hard to imagine a time when our country has needed Christian higher education more than it does now. Higher education began in the United States long before the country was even formed. The first college in colonial British America, Harvard, was founded in 1636 by the Puritans who had settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The clear purpose of the institution was to educate clergy to serve in the Puritan church, according to the Harvard University Archives website. Interestingly, the mission of the institution included the “advancement of all good literature, artes [sic], and Sciences.” The Puritans understood how valuable the arts and sciences were in developing reading comprehension, critical thinking, speaking, and argumentation skills. Every one of these skills helped the Puritans properly understand, espouse, and 7
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