Scholarship: Two Convocation Addresses on University Life (Biblia.com)

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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.

A scholar’s mission in life should be to serve and not to be served. Our maxim will always be: “You received without paying; give without pay.”10 Indeed, the point is that you are open to receive, that you are receptive. Not necessarily so that you may receive much. The rock shelf where the waterfall clatters down receives less than the loose, sandy soil that is normally watered from the clouds by droplets only. The “receiving” that leads to knowing is expressed etymologically in almost all languages

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