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In Scholarship, Dutch scholar and theologian Abraham Kuyper discusses the true focus of Christian education, explaining that scholarly study is a calling meant to help us better know the Creator. Kuyper originally delivered these two speeches as convocation addresses to the students at the Free University of Amsterdam, which he founded.

I mean that you place yourself with all your academic hopes and dreams before the face of God in such a way that praying for your studies flows naturally from it and is not attached to it as an afterthought. What I ask of you is that you realize something of the reason why God for the sake of his work wants there to be scientific learning among men; that you begin to see how on account of sin only a few are elected to be engaged in scholarship at various levels as a calling from God; that you will
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