Hillsdale College Mission Statement: Student Analysis

As a school that is a solid segue beyond my homeschooling experience in the Classical Conversations model, I am enthusiastic about the possibility of attending Hillsdale College. One of the more encouraging aspects of my inquiry into the school was discovering the Hillsdale College Mission Statement. Hillsdale is one of the few schools that stand apart from the norm of secular humanism as a driving ideology in higher education. The school’s respect for our country’s Western philosophical and theological inheritance, genuine liberal arts education, and usage of precept and example to instill Christian principles stand out as key components. As with our Founding Fathers, it respects, reveres and considers the diffusion of learning and the ability to reason soundly an essential component of higher learning and preparation for adulthood in the context of these principles.

Sadly, many institutions of higher learning have adopted an anti-Western worldview that has permeated campus culture across our nation. What has resulted from this antithetical groupthink towards this foundational heritage is a graduate body of citizens that often have not only abandoned our country’s foundational principles, but also have failed to develop an ability to reason soundly. While I am
This is essential regardless of a student’s academic pursuit, and is a vital part of preparing graduates to lead, both in their prospective professional fields and as citizens in general. I am grateful to have been homeschooled in this model, where grammar, logic and rhetoric have been core components of my education. In my view, this experience and Hillsdale’s founding objectives in provision of a literary, scientific and theological education make the school a great fit for