For home-schooled students, Patrick Henry College in Loudon County, Va., is like Harvard University.
Many high-achieving, home-schooled students have passed through Patrick Henry’s campus, which is meant to provide a network of connections for the rest of their lives ”” like Harvard or Stanford does for others. The conservative Christian college is known for attracting top students and arming them with religious training and an Ivy League-quality education.
Hanna Rosin, a journalist who has covered religion and politics for The Washington Post and written for The New Republic, GQ and The New York Times got to know Patrick Henry’s students ”” even housing some of them who were on internships. Her new book, God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America, follows the lives of students as they cope with college life.
Scott Simon spoke with Rosin and Daniel Noa, a Patrick Henry alum, about how home schooling and Patrick Henry shapes students.
I could be quite mistaken, but wasn’t it largely a Christian, home-schooled crowd that *originally* went to Harvard?
Continuing NPRs monologue of amazement that there is this strange group of people in the U.S. who still have religious values . . . AND (this is the kicker) they’re educated!
#1- You are right, nw. Harvard used to be God’s Harvard. But no more. Its current animus is largely the opposite of its founders’ intent.
Harvard was lost to Christianity in the late 1700s-early 1800s.
Of course, the Episcopalians in Boston went even earlier:
“1785 – King’s Chapel in Boston, formerly Episcopalian, ordains Unitarian James Freeman, removes references to Trinity in prayer book.”