Business Education at BYU

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Business Education at BYU
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Spencer W. Kimball

• This university shares with other universities
  the hope and the labor involved in rolling back
  the frontiers of knowledge even further, but we
  also know through the process of revelation that
  there are yet "many great and important things"
  (A of F 19) to be given to mankind which will
  have an intellectual and spiritual impact far
  beyond what mere men can imagine. Thus, at this
  university, among faculty, students, and
  administration, there is and must be an
  excitement and an expectation about the very
  nature and future of knowledge that underwrites
  the uniqueness of BYU.
• - Second Century Address

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Spencer W. Kimball

• Your double heritage and dual concerns with the
  secular and the spiritual require you to be
  "bilingual." As LDS scholars, you must speak with
  authority and excellence to your professional
  colleagues in the language of scholarship, and
  you must also be literate in the language of
  spiritual things. We must be more bilingual, in
  that sense, to fulfill our promise in the second
  century of BYU.
• - Second Century Address

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Spencer W. Kimball

• While the discovery of new knowledge must
  increase, there must always be a heavy and
  primary emphasis on transmitting knowledge--on
  the quality of teaching at BYU. Quality teaching
  is a tradition never to be abandoned.
• - Second Century Address

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Spencer W. Kimball

• To go to BYU is something special. There were
  Brethren who had dreams regarding the growth and
  maturity of Brigham Young University, even to the
  construction of a temple on the hill they had
  long called Temple Hill, yet "dreams and
  prophetic utterances are not self-executing. They
  are fulfilled usually by righteous and devoted
  people making the prophecies come true."
  (Wilkinson, Brigham Young University.)
• - Second Century Address

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Spencer W. Kimball

• you need to lengthen your stride, quicken your
  step, and (to use President N. Eldon Tanner's
  phrase) continue your journey. You are headed in
  the right direction! Such academic adjustments as
  need to be made will be made out of the
  individual and collective wisdom we find when a
  dedicated faculty interacts with a wise
  administration, an inspired governing board, and
  an appreciative body of students.
• - Second Century Address

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John S. Tanner

• The purpose of scholarship at BYU is not, and
  must never be, to satisfy our own vainglory nor
  to advance our own careers. Nor is it solely to
  advance truth and knowledge, though this is a
  worthy purpose and one specifically endorsed by
  BYUs institutional objectives. The primary
  purpose for the Churchs large investment in
  faculty scholarship at BYU is to enable us to
  be a refining host for our students. Hence, we
  must strive for excellence, as President Kimball
  says, not in arrogance or Pride, but in the
  spirit of service.
• - A House of Dreams

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John S. Tanner

• May each of you continue to be successful in all
  you do. May you be extraordinary teachers who
  gladly teach and gladly learn, and who find great
  joy in seeing your students learn. May you be
  scholars who are blessed with the thrill of
  discovery and creativity, whose scholarly and
  creative work bring joy, honor, and acclaim to
  you and to BYU. And may you also find enduring
  happiness in being good colleagues and mentors to
  your fellow faculty, rejoicing in the success of
  colleagues and student alike.
• - Rejoice With Them That Do Rejoice

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Stephen Nadauld

• There is something about the human spirit that
  dislikes the status quo. The status quo is not
  inspiring. We believe in eternal progression and
  life long learning. Research is the framework
  for learning and progressing.
• - As quoted by Grant McQueen

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C. S. Lewis

• What we want is not more little books about
  Christianity, but more little books by Christians
  on other subjectswith their Christianity latent.
• - God in the Dock Essays on Theology and Ethics

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Education Philosophy

• The mind is not a receptacle information is not
  education. Education is what remains after the
  information that has been taught has been
  forgotten.
• Robert M. Hutchins, President,
• University of Chicago, 1929-1951

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LearningThe Essence of Worship

• 12 And I, John, saw that he received not of the
  fulness at the first, but received grace for
  grace
• 13 And he received not of the fulness at first,
  but continued from grace to grace, until he
  received a fulness
• 14 And thus he was called the Son of God,
  because he received not of the fulness at the
  first.
• - DC 93

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LearningThe Essence of Worship

• 24 And truth is knowledge of things as they
  are, and as they were, and as they are to come
• 26 The Spirit of truth is of God. I am the
  Spirit of truth, and John bore record of me,
  saying He received a fulness of truth, yea, even
  of all truth
• 28 He that keepeth his commandments receiveth
  truth and light, until he is glorified in truth
  and knoweth all things.
• - DC 93

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LearningThe Essence of Worship

• 19 I give unto you these sayings that you may
  understand and know how to worship, and know what
  you worship, that you may come unto the Father in
  my name, and in due time receive of his fulness.
• - DC 93

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Pedagogy Know, Do, Be

• 51 They are they who received the testimony of
  Jesus, and believed on his name and were baptized
  after the manner of his burial, being buried in
  the water in his name, and this according to the
  commandment which he has given
• 52 That by keeping the commandments they might
  be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and
  receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the
  hands of him who is ordained and sealed unto this
  power
• 53 And who overcome by faith, and are sealed by
  the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father
  sheds forth upon all those who are just and true.
• DC 76

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To Be, or Not to Be

• Therefore, prepare ye the way of the Lord, for
  the time is at hand that all men shall reap a
  reward of their works, according to that which
  they have been
• - Alma 9 28

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Learning by Faith

• seek ye diligently and teach one another words
  of wisdom yea, seek ye out of the best books
  words of wisdom seek learning, even by study and
  also by faith.
• - DC 88 118

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Faith

• The assurance of things hoped for that are true
• The evidence of things not seen
• - Hebrews 111, Alma 3221
• The principle of action in all intelligent beings
• - Lectures on Faith

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Faith

• Faith as the assurance of things hoped for looks
  to the future.
• assurance and hope make it possible for us to
  walk to the edge of the light and take a few
  steps into the darknessexpecting and trusting
  the light to move and illuminate the way.
• Faith as the evidence of things not seen looks to
  the past and confirms our trust in God and our
  confidence in the truthfulness of things not
  seen.
• Assurance, action, and evidence influence each
  other in an ongoing process.
• - David A. Bednar, Seek Learning by Faith,
  Ensign, Sept. 2007

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C. S. Lewis

• Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is
  this that we can, if we let God have His way,
  come to share in the life of Christ. Christ is
  the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life
  we also shall be sons of God. Every Christian
  is to become a little Christ.
• - Mere Christianity, p. 137

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Dr. John A. Widtsoe

• The wonderful pedagogy of the temple service,
  especially appealing to me as a professional
  teacher, carries with it evidence of the truth of
  temple work. We go to the temple to be informed
  and directed, to be built up and to be blessed.
  How is all this accomplished? First by the
  spoken word, through lectures and conversations
  then by appeal to the eye Meanwhile the
  recipients themselves, the candidates for
  blessings, engage actively in the temple service
  I wish instruction were given so well in every
  school room throughout the land, for we would
  then teach with more effect than we now do.
• - Temple Worship, The Utah Genealogical and
  Historical Magazine, April, 1921

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Dr. John A. Widtsoe

• Knowledge becomes serviceable only when it is
  used the covenant made in the temple, or
  elsewhere, if of the right kind, is merely a
  promise to give life to knowledge, by making
  knowledge useful and helpful in mans daily
  progress.
• - Temple Worship, The Utah Genealogical and
  Historical Magazine, April, 1921