Anthony Kronman, in the September 16, 2007 edition of the Boston Globe, writes about the failure of colleges and universities to help students grapple with the search for meaning in their lives.

The students who have won this prize are about to enter an academic environment richer than any they have known. They will find courses devoted to every question under the sun. But there is one question for which most of them will search their catalogs in vain: The question of the meaning of life, of what one should care about and why, of what living is for.

He goes on to say:

Our culture may be spiritually impoverished, but what it needs is not more religion. What it needs is an alternative to religion, for colleges and universities to become again the places they once were - spiritually serious but nondogmatic, concerned with the soul but agnostic about God.

Read the entire article here.

[via The Line]