Academic Quality = Spiritual Decline??

“In their zeal to become prestigious, or known for their academic quality, many schools have moved away from their passionately Christian first principles. This is a matter of historical fact and of profound concern for Christian education. But it simply cannot be that rigorous academic work and genuine Christian faith are inherently incompatible, in the sense that an emphasis on one necessarily means a de-emphasis on the other. If that is the case, the entire Christian education enterprise is flawed from the start and ought never to be begun. Surely it is rather the way in which academic and spiritual purposes are related and how that relationship is articulated that is the issue.” (Piety and Philosophy, p. 76)