In verse 18 Paul writes: I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. In Alan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind, the first sentence (a statement he amplifies throughout the rest of the volume) says that it is virtually guaranteed that any freshman who enters a college or university in the United States comes already persuaded of a relativistic view of truth. Bloom argues that far from helping the freshman to grow out of this naive and untenable position, higher education
Ephesians 1:18